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The Stories of Mary Gordon

By Mary Gordon

By Mary Gordon

By Mary Gordon

By Mary Gordon

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Nov 06, 2007 | ISBN 9781400078080

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Nov 26, 2008 | ISBN 9780307491381

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    About The Stories of Mary Gordon

    The stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writer’s craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. These pieces encompass the pre- and postwar Irish American family life she circles in the early Temporary Shelter series, as well as a wealth of new fiction that brings her contemporary characters into middle age; it is their turn to face bodily decline, mortality, and the more complex anxieties of modern life. With their powerful insights into how we make do, both socially and privately, these stories are a treasure of American fiction.

    About The Stories of Mary Gordon

    The stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writer’s craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. These pieces encompass the pre- and postwar Irish American family life she circles in the early Temporary Shelter series, as well as a wealth of new fiction that brings her contemporary characters into middle age; it is their turn to face bodily decline, mortality, and the more complex anxieties of modern life. With their powerful insights into how we make do, both socially and privately, these stories are a treasure of American fiction.

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    About Mary Gordon

    Mary Gordon is the author of nine novels, including Final Payments, The Love of My Youth, Pearl, and There Your Heart Lies; seven works of nonfiction, including the memoirs Circling My Mother and The Shadow Man; and three collections of… More about Mary Gordon

    About Mary Gordon

    Mary Gordon is the author of nine novels, including Final Payments, The Love of My Youth, Pearl, and There Your Heart Lies; seven works of nonfiction, including the memoirs Circling My Mother and The Shadow Man; and three collections of… More about Mary Gordon

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Anchor
    Nov 06, 2007 | 480 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400078080

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Anchor
    Nov 26, 2008 | 480 Pages | ISBN 9780307491381
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    Praise

    “A rich introduction (or a happy re-acquaintance) to Gordon’s talent.” —The Seattle Times“These characters are splendid in their ridiculous humanity. . . . Gordon’s new stories are deeper and more relaxed, but all provide a mesmeric read . . . you’ll want to inhale and savor at the same time.” —Entertainment Weekly“Breathtaking. . . . Voluptuous.” —Los Angeles Times“Carefully drawn and gracefully written, [Gordon’s] stories combine the intimacy of memoir with the shape and narrative energy of fiction. . . .Vivid and richly imagined." —Chicago Sun-Times

    Awards

    The Story Prize WINNER 2006

    Table Of Contents

    NEW AND UNCOLLECTED

    City Life
    My Podiatrist Tells Me a Story About a Boy and a Dog
    Separation
    Death in Naples
    Intertextuality
    The Deacon
    Bishop’s House
    The Translator’s Husband
    The Epiphany Branch
    Cleaning Up
    I Need to Tell Three Stories and to Speak of Love and Death
    The Baby
    Rosecliff
    The Blind Spot
    Walt
    Storytelling
    Sick in London
    Conversations in Prosperity
    The Healing
    Eleanor’s Music
    Three Men Tell Me Stories About Their Boyhoods
    Vision

    from TEMPORARY SHELTER

    Temporary Shelter
    Delia
    The Only Son of the Doctor
    The Neighborhood
    Watching the Tango
    Agnes
    The Magician’s Wife
    The Imagination of Disater
    Out of the Fray
    The Other Woman
    Billy
    Safe
    The Dancing Party
    Violation
    Mrs. Cassidy’s Last Year
    A Writing Lesson
    The Thorn
    Eileen
    Now I Am Married

    Acknowledgments

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