The stories of Mary Gordon.
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New York : Pantheon Books, [2006].
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First edition.
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viii, 457 pages ; 25 cm
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2006].
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Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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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. Gordon captures the sharp scent of feelings as they shift, the shape of particular lives in their hope and incomprehensibility. In "The Neighborhood," a seven-year-old who has lost her father finds birthday parties, with their noisy games and spun-sugar roses on fancy cakes, her greatest trial. "City Life" explores the dark side of Manhattan apartment living. "Intertextuality" proposes a dream meeting between Prousts characters and the authors aging grandmother. Throughout, Gordons surprising path to the center of a story is as much a part of the tale as the self-understanding her characters achieve in the process: "What were they all, any of them, feeling?" one narrator ventures. "This was the sort of question no one in my family would ask. Feelings were for others: the weak, the idle. We were people who got on with things."
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gordon, M. (2006). The stories of Mary Gordon (First edition.). Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gordon, Mary, 1949-. 2006. The Stories of Mary Gordon. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gordon, Mary, 1949-. The Stories of Mary Gordon Pantheon Books, 2006.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gordon, Mary. The Stories of Mary Gordon First edition., Pantheon Books, 2006.
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