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Books by Gail Godwin
Queen of the Underworld
- Hardcover, 336 pages
Unfinished Desires
- Hardcover, 396 pages
Fifth Business
- Paperback, 252 pages
NPR stories about Gail Godwin
Books
Talk Nerdy To Me: Three Reads For Your Inner Geek
January 20, 2012 Smart, scintillating reads are hard to find — especially when you like your protagonists nerdy. Author Lev Grossman offers three great reads for the geeks in all of us.
A Century Of Schoolgirls' Secrets And 'Desires'
January 28, 2010 Author Gail Godwin's novel, Unfinished Desires, spins a tale of love, envy and reckoning at a Catholic girls' school in North Carolina. Reviewer Jane Ciabattari says the book is a "spellbinding psychological ghost story, near operatic in intensity."
Book Reviews
'Queen of the Underworld': Cuban Exiles in Miami
January 30, 2006 Book critic Alan Cheuse reviews Gail Godwin's Queen of the Underworld. The novel takes place in Miami just after the start of the Cuban Revolution and follows a fledgling reporter as she befriends a colorful cast of Cuban exiles.
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'Heart' by Gail Godwin
December 29, 2005 Listener Teresa is halfway through this examination of the heart's cultural role throughout history and "feeling gallantly wiser about so much. [I] cannot wait to crawl back in tonight to learn more about this beating organ that has given us life since the beginning."
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Author Interviews
A Quest For Roots Uncovers Ordinary People
Lawrence Jackson went on a quest to find his late grandfather's home in Virginia.
