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.…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mary Gordon is the author of the novels Spending, The Company of Women, The Rest of Life, Final Payments,The Other Side, and Pearl, as well as the memoir The Shadow Man. She has received a Lila Wallace—Reader's Digest Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 1997 O. Henry Award for best story. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.
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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
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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