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  • The Stories of Mary Gordon

    by 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 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Men and Angels

    A Novel

    by Mary Gordon ...
    With her husband abroad, an art historian employs a devout but difficult nanny, unsettling her domestic life as well as her view of motherhood—and of herselfWhen Anne Foster's husband accepts a yearlong teaching job in France, she decides to resume her own career in art history, which includes cataloging the work of a compelling and long-neglected painter, Caroline Watson. To care for her children ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Company of Women

    A Novel

    by Mary Gordon ...
    Mary Gordon's extraordinary novel about a young Catholic woman who pursues father figures—only to wrestle to break free of themFelicitas Maria Taylor was brought up in a cocoon, raised by five devoutly religious women. The death of her father while she was still a baby has caused her to seek out the extreme in men, and that is what she finds in Father Cyprian, a priest whom Felicitas visits during ... Read more

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  • There Your Heart Lies

    A Novel

    by Mary Gordon ...
    At nineteen, Marian Taylor cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family and left America to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War—an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties and diagnosed with cancer, Marian finally shares what happened to her during those years with her granddaughter Amelia, a young woman of good heart but only a vague notion of life’s ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Other Side

    A Novel

    by Mary Gordon ...
    A darkly gripping portrait of an Irish-American familyA multi-generational novel set over the course of a day, The Other Side centers on the journey of Vincent and Ellen MacNamara. Married for sixty-six years, the two have seen their share of hardships: emigration from Ireland to America; the bitter disappointments handed down to their children and grandchildren; and, most recently, setbacks to ... Read more

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  • Axel's Castle

    A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930

    by Edmund Wilson ...
    Axel's Castle: A Landmark Exploration of the French Symbolist Movement and Its Influence on Twentieth-Century LiteraturePublished in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism. This groundbreaking work delves into the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and its profound impact on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald

    by Zelda Fitzgerald ...
    This comprehensive collection of Zelda Fitzgerald’s work—including her only published novel, Save Me the Waltz—puts the jazz-age heroine in an illuminating literary perspective.Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been an American cultural icon. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, this southern belle turned flapper was talented in dance, painting, and writing but lived in the shadow of her husband F. Scott ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Rest of Life

    Three Novellas

    by Mary Gordon ...
    Three masterful tales of women in the grips of complicated and dangerous lovesThe Rest of Life is comprised of three spellbinding novellas about women in love. In Immaculate Man, an agnostic New York divorcée finds herself in thrall to an unexpected passion for a Catholic priest—who is also desired by a former superior—and who becomes unmoored by the affair. Living at Home is set in London, and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Liar's Wife

    Four Novellas

    by Mary Gordon ...
    The award-winning author at her storytelling best: four compelling novellas of Americans in Europe and Europeans in America.In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Good Boys and Dead Girls

    And Other Essays

    by Mary Gordon ...
    A collection of dazzling and thought-provoking essays from lauded author Mary GordonMuch acclaimed for her novels, Mary Gordon is also a brilliant and wide-ranging essayist. Gathering together twenty-eight of her forays into nonfiction, Good Boys and Dead Girls provides a richly autobiographical context for the themes that mark her fiction, such as Irish-American life, Catholicism, embattled ... Read more

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  • Pearl

    A Novel

    by Mary Gordon ...
    On Christmas night of 1998, Maria Meyers learns that her twenty-year-old daughter, Pearl, has chained herself outside the American embassy in Dublin, where she intends to starve herself to death. Although Maria was once a student radical and still proudly lives by her beliefs, gentle, book-loving Pearl has never been interested in politics–nor in the Catholicism her mother rejected years before. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Love of My Youth

    A Novel

    by Mary Gordon ...
    From the acclaimed author of Pearl and Final Payments comes a beautifully choreographed novel about first lovers meeting again after more than thirty years and reimmersing themselves in their shared past.Miranda and Adam, high-school sweethearts now in their late fifties, arrive by chance at the same time in Rome, a city where they once spent a summer deeply in love, living together blissfully. At ... Read more

    $6.99 USD