Mary Gordon, Author . Pantheon $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-375-42315-4
Gordon's latest novel opens in medias res on Christmas night in New York City with a phone call from the State Department. Maria Meyers's 20-year-old daughter, Pearl, supposedly studying linguistics for a year in Ireland, has chained herself
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Mary Gordon, Author . Pantheon $26 (457p) ISBN 978-0-375-42316-1
This book collects 41 tough-minded explorations into human hope, loss and failings by the award-winning author of six novels (including 1978's Final Payments
), a memoir and a life of Joan of Arc. Her quietly desperate protagonists range from a...
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Mary Gordon, Author Vintage Books USA $13.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-679-74931-8
This novelist's memoir depicts Gordon's disorienting process of unraveling the lies and deceptions enshrouding the identity of her late father. (May)
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Mary Gordon, Author Ballantine Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-32925-7
Gordon introduces the reader to women who form an ""enabling chain'': Caroline imparts strength to her daughter-in-law Jane, who befriends Anne, who cheers up teenage babysitter Laura. But when Laura becomes ``born again'' and tries to ``save'' Anne,
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Mary Gordon, Author Penguin Books $18 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-014907-4
Three powerful novellas tell of women who experience impassioned and transfiguring love affairs. (Aug.)
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Mary Gordon, Author Scribner Book Company $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-86254-5
Composed of eight loosely connected essays about places that have marked Gordon's (Spending) life, this beautifully written but uneven memoir evokes above all the intensely sensual and emotional perceptions of childhood. Proceeding from a brilliant...
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Mary Gordon, Author Random House (NY) $16.95 (213p) ISBN 978-0-394-55520-1
The 22 stories that make up this distinguished collection reaffirm Gordon's ability to create fully dimensional characters who speak in a variety of authentic voices. Though the narratives are poetically compressed, Gordon eschews minimalism and...
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Mary Gordon, Author Viking Books $19.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-82566-0
Gordon's talents as a mesmerizing storyteller and a chronicler of the human heart come together in a brutally honest and tenderly compassionate novel about a family who transcend their particularities to represent the saga of Irish immigrants and...
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Mary Gordon, Author Viking Books $19.95 (253p) ISBN 978-0-670-82567-7
In 28 captivating, provocative, iconoclastic essays and reviews (all but the title piece previously published), novelist Gordon ( Final Payments ) describes her pregnancy, visits Marilyn Monroe's grave and gives a feminist reading of American...
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Mary Gordon, Author Viking Books $22 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-83828-8
Gordon ( Good Boys and Bad Girls ) here collects three novellas of characteristically understated power about the strange ways of love--and death--among women and men. The title novella concerns love remembered, as Paola, an elderly woman traveling...
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Mary Gordon, Author Random House (NY) $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42885-5
Popular feminist novelist and short story writer Gordon (Final Payments), in her mid-40s, discovered that the father she had idealized, the man who set her course as a writer, was a liar and an impostor. David Gordon died in 1957, when Mary was...
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Mary Gordon, Author Viking Books $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-88537-4
One would expect nothing less from Gordon (Spending) than a splendid, spare account of Joan's life--and she delivers in this slender but satisfying account, a new entry in the Penguin Lives series. The facts of Joan of Arc's life are straightforward:
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Mary Gordon, Pantheon, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-37742-5
Thoughtful and moving, Gordon's latest captures the ardor and vulnerability of young love and the cautious circumspection of middle age. Miranda and Adam began a love affair in high school that endured through college only to end in a painful...
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Mary Gordon, Author, Etienne Delessert, Illustrator, New York Times, Designed by William Morrow & Company $17 (125p) ISBN 978-0-688-13690-1
Collecting eight essays by eight writers originally published in the New York Times Book Review during the summer of 1993, this anthology considers, one by one, the legendary seven deadly sins. But in addition to sloth, anger, lust, gluttony,...
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Mary Gordon, Author . Pantheon $24 (254p) ISBN 978-0-375-42456-4
Short story writer, novelist and memoirist Gordon honors her late mother, Anne. Though she died in 2002, Anne was gradually lost to senile dementia years before, stunting Gordon’s grief. Now, she explains, “I write about her because I am
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Mary Gordon, Author . Pantheon $24 (205p) ISBN 978-0-375-42457-1
Novelist and memoirist Gordon (Circling My Mother
) examines her faith by closely reading, in a kind of literary lectio divina
(sacred reading), the four Christian gospels that recount the life of Christ. The accounts by evangelists Matthew, Mark,...
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Mary Gordon. Pantheon, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-90794-3
In 1937, Marian Rabinowitz (née Taylor) is 19 years old and newly married—in name only—to a Jewish doctor who had been her brother’s lover. She has left behind Vassar and her bitter, Catholic Park Avenue family and is on her way to Spain with her...
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Mary Gordon. Shambhala, $24.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-61180-337-2
This brilliant, incisive work from biographer, novelist, and memoirist Gordon (Reading Jesus) examines the relationship—and tension—between 20th-century Christian philosopher Thomas Merton’s dual roles as writer and monk. Gordon approaches her...
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Mary Gordon. Pantheon, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4922-4
Gordon’s excellent latest (after There Your Heart Lies) contrasts the 1970s world of upper-class women’s education with the #MeToo era. Agnes Vaughan and Heidi Stolz meet in the early ’70s at a Rhode Island private girls’ school where Agnes is a...
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