The Company of Women

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480415027

<DIV><DIV><b>Mary Gordon&rsquo;s extraordinary novel about a young Catholic woman who pursues father figures&mdash;only to wrestle to break free of them</b></div><DIV><BR>Felicitas Maria Taylor was brought up in a cocoon, raised by five devoutly religious women. The death of her father while she was still a baby has caused her to seek out the extreme in men, and that is what she finds in Father Cyprian, a priest whom Felicitas visits during summers in upstate New York. The charismatic Cyprian fosters the young girl&rsquo;s gifts and intelligence, but, no lover of worldly things, he demands a severe loyalty.</div><DIV><BR>When Felicitas comes of age and begins her studies at Columbia, everything seems poised to change. At the university, she falls under the spell of another domineering man&mdash;a professor surrounded by young activist acolytes&mdash;and this time, the stakes couldn&rsquo;t be higher. </div><DIV><i><BR>The Company of Women</i> is a story of dangerous attachments and challenged faith&mdash;and of finding an endurable future.<BR></div><DIV></div></div>