Good Boys and Dead Girls

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480414754

<DIV><DIV><b>A collection of dazzling and thought-provoking essays from lauded author Mary Gordon</b></div><DIV><BR>Much acclaimed for her novels, Mary Gordon is also a brilliant and wide-ranging essayist. Gathering together twenty-eight of her forays into nonfiction, <i>Good Boys and Dead Girls</i> 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.&#160;<BR></div><DIV></div></div>