Mary Gordon

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1978
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • Final Payments

    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 s...

  • The Company of Women

    Felicitas Bright, charming, intelligent -- raised by five intensely religious women and a charismatic, controversial priest. For them, the future is in her hands. Felicitas She trades her sheltered purity for a taste of ordinary happiness -- at Col...

  • Men and Angels

    Anne Foster's husband is in France. She has stayed behind in their small college town with her two young children -- whom she loves with an intensity that awes her -- to finish writing the catalogue for a major exhibition of the work of American Impr...

  • Temporary Shelter

    In this collection of short stories, the author portrays the magnified misunderstandings of childhood - the frustrations of truths witheld, the jealous need for belonging and yet for privacy. She observes the guilt and confusion death brings to the l...

  • The Other Side

    “An elegant and moving generational saga . . . Satisfying and emotionally rich.” -- People
     
    Both Ellen and Vincent left Ireland in the early part of this century, one bitterly escaping shame, humiliation, and fear; the other filled wit...

  • Good Boys and Dead Girls: And Other Essays

    Traces the relation of literature to human life, in a collection of essays, such as the title piece that takes on Dreiser, Faulkner, and Updike, and others about abortion, male domination, and the Church...

  • The Rest of Life

    A National Bestseller
     
    In these beautifully rendered novellas, the writer introduces three women, each of whom tells the story of the lover who most altered her life. In Immaculate Man he is a priest, a virgin at the age of forty-three. In ...

  • Shadow Man

    In a searing memoir, the critically acclaimed author of The Company of Women shares her memories of the father who died when she was a child and her discovery of the truth about his life and death and the secrets he hid. 50,000 first printing...

  • Spending

    Monica Szabo, a middle-aged, moderately successful painter, encounters B, a wealthy commodities broker who collects her work. B volunteers to be her muse, offering her everything that male artists have always had to produce great art: time, space, mo...



  • The Hong Kong Affair

    The Gordons, termed by some critics as masters of the "thriller" novel, chose Hong Kong, one of the world's most exciting cities, as the setting for their latest story, much of it fact inspired.

    Dave Anderson, a Los Angeles journalist, receives a ...

  • The Llangollen Ladies

    Lady Butler and Miss Ponsonby were certainly an odd pair. Born to noble Irish families in the mid Eighteenth Century, they departed in 1778 - flew away like wild geese - to Wales where they settled together in a three-bay stone-built cottage in Llang...

  • Pearl

    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 pr...

  • The Stories of Mary Gordon

    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 lif...

  • Circling My Mother

  • The Love of My Youth

    Miranda and Adam, high-school sweethearts now in their late fifties, arrive by chance at the same time in Rome, a city where they once spent a summer deeply in love, living together blissfully. At an awkward reunion, the two -- who parted in an atmos...

  • Little Bethlehem Star

    Create a Christmas keepsake! Enjoy the wonder of the Christmas story, as your child brings life to the pages of Little Bethlehem Star with his or her own illustrations. Give your child the real experience of being an illustrator. Create a keepsake th...

  • The Liar's Wife

    In the short novels that make up this beautiful collection, Mary Gordon presents a quartet of finely rendered, emotionally resonant stories. Here we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her last days as a transplant in New York City; a vulnerable Am...

  • Salsa

    A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Original Selection   Brave, intelligent, fierce -- eighteen-year-old Silvia knows how to handle men. When she discovered that her Salsa-dancing father’s been hiding an affair, she threw him out of the a...

  • There Your Heart Lies

    At nineteen, Marian Taylor cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family and left America to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War -- an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties and diagnosed with cancer, Mar...



  • Payback

    A novel of lifelong reckoning between two women by the award-winning, beloved author. Unbeknownst to her many fans, Quin Archer, the revenge-loving queen of the reality-TV show "Payback," was once an angry teen named Heidi--and her true st...

  • Chase Of The Wild Goose

Award-Winning Books by Mary Gordon

The Stories of Mary Gordon
2006 Story Prize -- Fiction Collection


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mary Gordon has published 21 books.

Mary Gordon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Chase Of The Wild Goose, was published in February 2023.

The first book by Mary Gordon, Final Payments, was published in March 1978.

No. Mary Gordon does not write books in series.
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