Mary Gordon

"From the award-winning, much loved writer: a deeply moving novel about an American woman's place during the Spanish Civil War, the lessons she took from it, and how her story will shape her granddaughter's path. Marian cut herself off from her conservative, wealthy Irish Catholic family when she volunteered during the Spanish Civil War--experiences she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties, she shares her Rhode Island cottage with her granddaughter...

"The beloved author at her storytelling best: four wonderful novellas of Americans abroad and Europeans in America. In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of...

Anne's job prevents her from accompanying her husband on his sabbatical and necessitates engaging live-in help for the children. Anne's discovery of the sitter's unstable condition results in learning a lesson about love.

A selection of essays on a variety of issues about literature and American culture.

Weaves together many-stranded lives connected by promises and mistakes, fierce pride and keen disappointment.

After spending eleven years caring for her bedridden father, thirty-year-old Isabel Moore finds that, with his death, she must make a new life for herself.

An erotic novel on a woman artist who trades her body for financial support from a male patron. The arrangement enables Monica Szabo, a struggling artist in her 50s, to paint what she likes. She makes her name with a painting of Jesus Christ, showing him spent after sexual orgasm. By the author of The Rest of Life.