'The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne' launched Brian Moore's distinguished literary career and also – because of his sensitive portrayal of her – enshrined Judith Hearne in the gallery of literature's unforgettable women. A penetrating, comic, tragic tale of a plain woman, it is a novel that occasionally sings with the lilt of the Irish greats.
Mary Gordon gelingt es meisterhaft, die heldenhafte Geschichte der Jungfrau von Orléans auch nach über 500 Jahren in ihrer Widersprüchlichkeit spannend darzustellen. Jeanne d'Arc, Tochter eines reichen Bauern aus Lothringen, hört mit 13 Jahren plötzlich > Stimmen<, die ihr befehlen, den französischen König aufzusuchen und die Engländer aus Frankreich zu vertreiben. Es gelingt ihr tatsächlich, eine Audienz bei Karl VII. zu bekommen. Kurz darauf befreit sie mit der französischen Armee Orléans, das damals von den Engländern belagert wurde. Jeanne d'Arc wird jedoch gefangengenommen, der Ketzerei angeklagt, und schließlich bei lebendigem Leibe verbrannt. Mary Gordon betont in dieser Biographie den Aspekt Jeanne d'Arcs als weltweit positiver Identifikationsfigur. In der Auseinandersetzung mit dem jungen Mädchen, das für seinen Glauben und seine Überzeugung alles aufs Spiel setzt, zeichnet die Autorin ein ungewöhnlich differenziertes Bild.
At a museum lecture, artist Monica Szabo meets B, a commodities trader who has been anonymously buying her paintings. He offers to patronize her so that she can paint full time. Then sex comes into it, raising questions about the kinds of currency exchanged between people.
A collection of dazzling and thought-provoking essays from lauded author Mary Gordon Much acclaimed for her novels, Mary Gordon is also a brilliant and wide-ranging essayist. Gathering together twenty-eight of her forays into nonfiction, "Good Boys and Dead Girls" 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.
This stunning collection of 28 stories brings readers a literary portrait of the American family from 1894 to today. A collection of works that captures the essence of American families from living together and apart to loving and letting go.Regret / Kate Chopin --The lombardy poplar / Mary Wilkins Freeman --The widow's might / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --Old Rogaum and his Theresa / Theodore Dreiser --The sorrows of gin / John Cheever --I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen --Simple and Counsin F.D. Roosevelt Brown / Langston Hughes --The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines --My Coney Island uncle / Harvey Swados --My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud --Final dwarf / Henry Roth --And Sarah laughed / Joanne Greenberg --Wedding day / Roberta Silman --The legacy of Beau Kremel / Stephen Wolf --Kiswana Brown / Gloria Naylor --Tuesdays / Mary Hedin --Afloat / Ann Beattie --Winterblossom garden / David Low --Old things / Bobbie Ann Mason --Starlight / Marian Thurm --The writer in the family / E.L. Doctorow --The rich brother / Tobias Wolff --My legacy / Don Zacharia --Violation / Mary Gordon --Appropriate affect / Sue Miller --What I did for love / Lynne Sharon Schwartz --Still of some use / John Updike --Elephant / Raymond Carver
Both Ellen and Vincent left Ireland in the early part of this century, one bitterly escaping shame, humiliation, and fear; the other filled with hope for the promise and future of America - the "other side." Together for more than sixty years, they raised a family, savored their dreams, comforted, challenged, and defied one another. Their desires and fears are manifest in the generations that follow - children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, each carrying as a legacy of the past the need to find a true place in the family and in the world at large. As she writes of passage and change, of the struggle of generations to find a common ground, Mary Gordon reveals that the dramas wrought by social and cultural forces can be resolved only in the realm of the heart.
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON`What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?' Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity - a room of one's own.
With her husband abroad, an art historian employs a devout but difficult nanny, unsettling her domestic life as well as her view of motherhood--and of herself When Anne Foster's husband accepts a yearlong teaching job in France, she decides to resume her own career in art history, which includes cataloging the work of a compelling and long-neglected painter, Caroline Watson. To care for her children, Anne employs the pious Laura Post. Though the young woman is well liked by the children, she rubs Anne the wrong way. Should Anne be more compassionate, or should she behave more like the willful artist--and unapologetically bad mother--she's so fascinated by in Watson? As the discord mounts between Anne and Laura, the need for answers sharpens." Men and Angels" is a riveting and refreshingly unsentimental inquiry into motherhood and sacrifice.
"A superb, stunningly written novel." The Philadelphia Inquirer Raised by five intensely religious women and a charismatic, controversial priest, sheltered from the secular world, Felicitas Maria Taylor is intelligent, charming, and desperate for a taste of ordinary happiness. More freedom than she has ever imagined awaits her at Columbia University in the 1960s. There, Felicitas falls in love with the worst man for her -- with shattering results. Now she must turn again to the company of the women who love her as she struggles to embrace the future without betraying the past.
Barcelona. 20 cm. 304p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial. Mary Gordon .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 847454100X
Na een volslagen beknot en opgesloten leven moet een jonge Amerikaanse van Ierse afkomst een eigen bestaan opbouwen, wat met vallen en opstaan gepaard gaat.
