Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon is the author of the novels Spending, The Company of Women, The Rest of Life, Final Payments,The Other Side, and Pearl; the short story collections Temporary Shelter and The Stories of Mary Gordon; and 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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Reading Jesus
Hardcover | 240 pages | Pantheon | Religion - Bible - Criticism, Interpretation - New Testament; Religion - History; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-375-42457-1 (0-375-42457-1)
October 27, 2009 | $29.95
In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that, though a lifelong Christian, she is at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she...
Written by Mary Gordon
Hardcover | 240 pages | Pantheon | Religion - Bible - Criticism, Interpretation - New Testament; Religion - History; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-375-42457-1 (0-375-42457-1)
October 27, 2009 | $29.95
In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that, though a lifelong Christian, she is at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she...
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eBook.
Reading Jesus
eBook | 240 pages | Pantheon | Religion - Bible - Criticism, Interpretation - New Testament; Religion - History; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-37859-0 (0-307-37859-4)
October 27, 2009 | $29.95
In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that, though a lifelong Christian, she is at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she...
Written by Mary Gordon
eBook | 240 pages | Pantheon | Religion - Bible - Criticism, Interpretation - New Testament; Religion - History; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-37859-0 (0-307-37859-4)
October 27, 2009 | $29.95
In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that, though a lifelong Christian, she is at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she...
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Stories of Mary Gordon
eBook | 480 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-49138-1 (0-307-49138-2)
November 26, 2008 | $21.00
The masterly 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...
Written by Mary Gordon
eBook | 480 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-49138-1 (0-307-49138-2)
November 26, 2008 | $21.00
The masterly 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...
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trade paperback.
Circling My Mother
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-27761-9 (0-307-27761-5)
October 14, 2008 | $16.95
Anna Gagliano Gordon, who died in 2002 at the age of 94, was the personification of the culture of the mid-century American Catholic working class. A hard-working single mother – Mary Gordon's father died when she was still a girl – she managed to hold down a job, dress smartly, raise...
Written by Mary Gordon
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-27761-9 (0-307-27761-5)
October 14, 2008 | $16.95
Anna Gagliano Gordon, who died in 2002 at the age of 94, was the personification of the culture of the mid-century American Catholic working class. A hard-working single mother – Mary Gordon's father died when she was still a girl – she managed to hold down a job, dress smartly, raise...
Circling My Mother
eBook | pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-47279-3 (0-307-47279-5)
October 14, 2008 | $18.95
In this triumphant return to nonfiction after two critically acclaimed works of fiction, Mary Gordon gives us a rich, bittersweet memoir about her mother, their relationship and her role as daughter.
Anna Gagliano Gordon, who died in 2002 at the age of 94, lived a life colored by large forces: immigration...
Written by Mary Gordon
eBook | pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-307-47279-3 (0-307-47279-5)
October 14, 2008 | $18.95
In this triumphant return to nonfiction after two critically acclaimed works of fiction, Mary Gordon gives us a rich, bittersweet memoir about her mother, their relationship and her role as daughter.
Anna Gagliano Gordon, who died in 2002 at the age of 94, lived a life colored by large forces: immigration...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
The Stories of Mary Gordon
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary
978-1-4000-7808-0 (1-4000-7808-3)
November 6, 2007 | $21.00
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...
Written by Mary Gordon
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary
978-1-4000-7808-0 (1-4000-7808-3)
November 6, 2007 | $21.00
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...
Also available as an
eBook.
Circling My Mother
Hardcover | 272 pages | Pantheon | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-375-42456-4 (0-375-42456-3)
August 14, 2007 | $30.00
In this triumphant return to nonfiction after two critically acclaimed works of fiction, Mary Gordon gives us a rich, bittersweet memoir about her mother, their relationship and her role as daughter.
Anna Gagliano Gordon, who died in 2002 at the age of 94, lived a life colored by large forces: immigration...
Written by Mary Gordon
Hardcover | 272 pages | Pantheon | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-375-42456-4 (0-375-42456-3)
August 14, 2007 | $30.00
In this triumphant return to nonfiction after two critically acclaimed works of fiction, Mary Gordon gives us a rich, bittersweet memoir about her mother, their relationship and her role as daughter.
Anna Gagliano Gordon, who died in 2002 at the age of 94, lived a life colored by large forces: immigration...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Final Payments
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor | Fiction
978-0-307-27678-0 (0-307-27678-3)
June 6, 2006 | $18.95
When Isabel Moore's father dies, she finds herself, at the age of thirty, suddenly freed from eleven years of uninterrupted care for a helpless man. With all the patterns of her life suddenly rendered meaningless, she turns to childhood friends for support, gets a job, and becomes involved with two very...
Written by Mary Gordon
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Anchor | Fiction
978-0-307-27678-0 (0-307-27678-3)
June 6, 2006 | $18.95
When Isabel Moore's father dies, she finds herself, at the age of thirty, suddenly freed from eleven years of uninterrupted care for a helpless man. With all the patterns of her life suddenly rendered meaningless, she turns to childhood friends for support, gets a job, and becomes involved with two very...
Pearl
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary
978-1-4000-7807-3 (1-4000-7807-5)
April 11, 2006 | $18.95
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...
Written by Mary Gordon
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary
978-1-4000-7807-3 (1-4000-7807-5)
April 11, 2006 | $18.95
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...
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eBook.
The Woman Warrior, China Men
Hardcover | 560 pages | Everyman's Library | Biography & Autobiography
978-1-4000-4384-2 (1-4000-4384-0)
April 12, 2005 | $33.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Here–for the first time in one volume–are two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines her family’s past and her culture’s stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs...
Hardcover | 560 pages | Everyman's Library | Biography & Autobiography
978-1-4000-4384-2 (1-4000-4384-0)
April 12, 2005 | $33.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Here–for the first time in one volume–are two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines her family’s past and her culture’s stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs...
Pearl
eBook | 320 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary
978-0-375-42358-1 (0-375-42358-3)
January 18, 2005 | $18.95
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...
Written by Mary Gordon
eBook | 320 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary
978-0-375-42358-1 (0-375-42358-3)
January 18, 2005 | $18.95
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...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Joan of Arc
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography
978-1-4159-1061-0 (1-4159-1061-8)
March 13, 2000 | $21.00
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography
978-1-4159-1061-0 (1-4159-1061-8)
March 13, 2000 | $21.00
The Shadow Man
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-679-74931-8 (0-679-74931-4)
April 29, 1997 | $17.95
In The Shadow Man, the bestselling author of Final Payments and The Company of Women elevates the memoir into an uncompromising and unforgettable art form as she seeks to learn the truth about her lost father. 20 photos.
Written by Mary Gordon
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-679-74931-8 (0-679-74931-4)
April 29, 1997 | $17.95
In The Shadow Man, the bestselling author of Final Payments and The Company of Women elevates the memoir into an uncompromising and unforgettable art form as she seeks to learn the truth about her lost father. 20 photos.
The Company of Women
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Psychological; Fiction - Family Saga
978-0-345-48301-0 (0-345-48301-4)
March 12, 1986 | $27.00
Written by Mary Gordon
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Psychological; Fiction - Family Saga
978-0-345-48301-0 (0-345-48301-4)
March 12, 1986 | $27.00
