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Mary Gordon

Biography

Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon is the author of nine novels, including FINAL PAYMENTS, THE LOVE OF MY YOUTH, PEARL and THERE YOUR HEART LIES; six works of nonfiction, including the memoirs CIRCLING MY MOTHER and THE SHADOW MAN; and three collections of short fiction, including THE STORIES OF MARY GORDON, which was awarded the Story Prize. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.

Mary Gordon

Books by Mary Gordon

by Mary Gordon - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Quin Archer is the revenge-loving queen of the reality TV show "Payback," and has dedicated her life to confronting and outing the guilty. But long before she was a star, Quin was an angry teenage student at a private New England girls’ school, whose closest confidant was her art teacher, Agnes. But when Quin (then known as Heidi) turned to Agnes for help in a moment of desperate need, Agnes’ stunned response devastated them both.

by Mary Gordon - Fiction

In Mary Gordon’s 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 first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of the title story, who gets more out of life than most of us; and Thomas Mann, opening the heart of a high school kid in the Midwest.

by Mary Gordon - Fiction

As teenagers, Miranda and Adam began a love affair that endured through college only to end in a painful betrayal. When a mutual friend brings them together in present-day Rome, they haven't seen each other in more than three decades. The two embark on daily walks, reconnecting in the heart of this beautiful city, which still holds passionate memories.

by Mary Gordon - Fiction
There's something strange about Walter Kopple's farm. At first it seems to be his grandson, who cruelly murders one of Walter's pigs in an act of seemingly senseless violence. But then the rumors begin --- people in town whisper that Walter's grandson heard a voice that commanded him to kill. And that the voice belongs to a most peculiar creature: Walter's pig, Pearl. Walter is not sure what to believe. He knows that he's always been afraid of the strangely malevolent Pearl. But as madness and paranoia grip the town and the townspeople descend on Walter's farm with violent wrath, they begin to discover that true evil wears a human face.