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Home : What It Means and Why It Matters by Mary Gordon
Category: Home and Garden
"Where do you live?" The answer to this seemingly simple question can be more complicated than you'd think. Drawing on personal experience, Mary Gordon examines various forms of abode-from her childhood house in Far Rockaway to apartments in Palo Alto, Rome, and the Upper West Side-as well as the very c ...Show more
LOVE OF MY YOUTH by GORDON MARY
Category: Fiction
From the acclaimed author of "Pearl "and "Final Payments" comes a beautifully choreographed novel about first lovers meeting again after more than thirty years and reimmersing themselves in their shared past. Miranda and Adam, high-school sweethearts now in their late fifties, arrive by chance at the sa ...Show more
On Thomas Merton by Mary Gordon
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Thomas Merton (1815-1968) was a Trappist monk, poet, essayist, activist, and author of some of the most influential spiritual writing of the 20th century. He entered the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani in Kentucky as a young man in his twenties, seemingly abandoning the promising literary career that l ...Show more
On Thomas Merton by Mary Gordon
Category: Philosophy and Religion
From the best-selling novelist and memoirist: a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated modern monk and thinker through his writings. "If Thomas Merton had been a writer and not a monk, we would never have heard of him. If Thomas Merton had been a monk and not a writer, we would never ha ...Show more
Zelda Fitzgerald: The Collected Writings by Mary Gordon
Category: Classic Fiction
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been perceived as the tragic "other half" of the Scott and Zelda legend. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, this southern belle turned flapper was talented in dance, painting and writing but lived in the shadow of her husband's success. Her writing can be experienced on its own ...Show more
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