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Books by Mary Gordon
Pearl
- Hardcover, 354 pages
Circling My Mother
- Hardcover, 254 pages
NPR stories about Mary Gordon
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Foreign Affairs: Love In Rome, Battle In Cuba And Mystery In Sweden
April 11, 2012 Novelist Mary Gordon looks at love and maturity, while Henning Mankell delivers his last Kurt Wallander mystery. In nonfiction, Jim Rasenberger revisits the Bay of Pigs, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells of Afghani women's ingenuity, Charles Ogletree probes the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Meagan O'Rourke meditates on her mother's death.
Book Reviews
An Old Romance Blooms Anew In 'Love Of My Youth'
April 19, 2011 In Mary Gordon's luscious, wistful new novel, two former lovers meet in Rome after not having seen each other for almost 40 years. Book critic Maureen Corrigan praises the book's "undeniable appeal."
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Mary Gordon Reads from 'Circling My Mother'
August 28, 2007 Gordon's best-selling novels have been celebrated as much for the precision of her language as for her powers of observation; here, she reflects on her mother's life — and her death after suffering with dementia.
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Novelist Gordon's Personal Memoir of Her Mother
August 5, 2007 Some years ago, acclaimed novelist Mary Gordon wrote a memoir about her father, revealing how the man she had loved as a Catholic intellectual was actually a converted Jew, a rabid anti-Semite and an academic fraud. Gordon's new memoir, Circling My Mother, is a tribute to the hard-working woman who raised and supported her.
Author Interviews
Novelist Mary Gordon on 'Pearl'
March 31, 2006 Mary Gordon's book Pearl is about a mother struggling to understand her daughter's public act of martyrdom. It's now out in paperback. Gordon is the author of seven novels, including Final Payments and The Company of Women and four nonfiction works (including The Shadow Man. (This interview was originally broadcast Jan. 31, 2005.)
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Author Interviews
A Portrait Of The Cartoonist And Her Mother
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel has a new memoir about her complicated relationship with her mother.
Author Interviews
A Quest For Roots Uncovers Ordinary People
Lawrence Jackson went on a quest to find his late grandfather's home in Virginia.
