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Good Boys and Dead Girls: And Other Essays

By Mary Gordon

Book information

Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2013
ISBN
9781480414754
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2055402 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-21 18:20:53
Nonfiction

Description

A collection of dazzling and thought-provoking essays from lauded author Mary Gordon Much acclaimed for her novels, Mary Gordon is also a brilliant and wide-ranging essayist. Gathering together twenty-eight of her forays into nonfiction, Good Boys and Dead Girls provides a richly autobiographical context for the themes that mark her fiction, such as Irish-American life, Catholicism, embattled families, and the redeeming power of art. Many of the pieces offer insights into artists and other writers: There are admiring accounts of Edith Wharton, Stevie Smith, and Ford Madox Ford, and a piquant critique of the depiction of women by certain celebrated male novelists. Whatever the topic at hand, Gordon proves lively and illuminating company.

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