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41 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 2002

Still Relevant and Important
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. ~Virginia Woolf,A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf's very intense A Room Of One's Own, is actually a long essay she wrote "with ardour and conviction" on the the topic of women and fiction, that she prepared when asked to speak about this subject at women's colleges. A Room of One's Own was published in 1929, ...

Circling My Mother: A Memoir

18 reviews
Mary Gordon

Pantheon, 2007

Contrast with Mary McCArthy's "Catholic Childhood."
Mary Gordon is a wonderful writer and brings alive the environment of a Catholic upbringing, never hiding her loving ambivalence or her mother's peculiarities. The first chapter overdoes the analogy to Bonnard paintings, but otherwise, a good read.

The Stories of Mary Gordon

3 reviews
Mary Gordon

Anchor, 2007

Thought provoking, engrossing, and unforgettable
Reading this hefty book of short stories that explores the traits and lives of everyday people is enough to wallop a reader in the gut. The tales are all too real. The characters are never seen through a kind pink haze; without softening, they show us --- in unflinching prose --- jealousy, possessiveness, despair, loss and more. And yet we cannot look away; Mary Gordon is describing us. One ...

A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas

4 reviews
Virginia Woolf

Quality Paperback Book Club, 1992

Women against war
I gave this book 5 stars, not because I really liked it, but because it's interesting. Three Guineas is VW second book that is an argument and not fiction (the first is a room of one's own). It's about how women can help prevent war, and it says a lot of stuff, one of the things being to link male vanity to aggression. It's controversial, and a lot less pleasant than a room of one's own. ...

Howards End (Barnes & Noble Classics)

6 reviews
E.M. Forster

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003

Homecomings.
Most of us connect the notion of "home" or "childhood home" with one particular place, that innocent paradise we have since had to give up and keep searching for forever after. In Ruth Wilcox's world, Howards End is that place; the countryside house where she was born, where her family often returns to spend their vacations, and which, everyone assumes, will pass on to her children when she is ...

Circling My Mother

1 review
Mary Gordon

Anchor, 2008

Looking at a long and sometimes sad life
Mary Gordon's mother, Anna Gagliano Gordon, married late in life and gave birth to Mary when she was forty-one years old. Her husband, Mary's father, died when Mary was seven. Anna lived to be ninety-four. She spent the last years of her life in a state of severe dementia and couldn't even remember who Mary was. After her death in 2002, Mary felt compelled to try to understand more about this ...

Collected Writings Zelda Fitzgerald

2 reviews
Zelda Fitzgerald

Scribner, 1991

a beautiful, surreal book
Zelda Fitzgerald spent much of her life trying to struggle out of the shadow of her famous husband. For many years she was both a literal and figurative inspiration for his work, often helping him with his stories. This book of her writings allows her to finally take her own place in the fiction world. Her novel, Save Me the Waltz, is an incredible book in which language becomes surrealistic ...

Spending: A Novel

57 reviews
Mary Gordon

Scribner, 1999

Best read in the last couple of years for me...
As an art history major who works for a publisher the subject matter of this book was instantly attractive. What was the wonderful surprise was Gordon's writing style. I savored every word, and will be seeking out and reading her other works. Bravo!

Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

4 reviews
Edmund Wilson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

Is Literature Obsolete?
The day Edmund Wilson is found irrelevant is the day literature is banned from our bookstores and libraries. This day is unlikely to come, but many small decisions are made everyday that take us closer to this eventuality. Librarians toss books routinely now to make room for play rooms, computer booths, and the lot. Public schools choose anthologies of the daily lives of workers and slaves and ...

Pearl

23 reviews
Mary Gordon

Thorndike Press, 2005

An Intelligent Read
Mary Gordon has published five novels, a book of novellas, a collection of short stories, a memoir, two books of essays, and a biography of Joan of Arc. She is a recipient of the Lila Acheson Wallace Reader's Digest Award, a Guggenheim fellowship and a 1997 O. Henry Prize for best short story. Her latest novel, "Pearl," may delve into similar issues as her other works: religion, motherhood, ...

The Woman Warrior, China Men (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
Maxine Hong Kingston

Everyman's Library, 2005

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Here?for the first time in one volume?are two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines her family?s past and her culture?s stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts , which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, is Kingston?s ...

Feeds and Feeding (Threshold Picture Guides, 10)

1 review
Mary Gordon Watson

Kenilworth Pr, 1988

Cleared up a lot of confusion for all of us.....
Lots of pictures and drawings to explain all the types of feed. The entire series is well done. Helped us know what and WHY we should feed certain products and what we should avoid. Recommended.

Circling My Mother
Mary Gordon

Pantheon, 2007

An inspiring memoir about a grown daughter's coming to terms with her mother's life - a life of physical affliction and one that is historically significant in its context. Absorbing and candid.

The Company of Women

5 reviews
Mary Gordon

Corgi, 1982

The Company of Women by Mary Gordon
Dear Friends: Like the stories in the Bible about great women; Ruth, Rachael and many more. It is important that women have mentors that they have alive today to look up to and emulate to help us live our lives more like Jesus.

THE SIXPENNY DEBT & OTHER OXFORD STORIES (Large print edition)
Mary Cavanagh, Jane Gordon-Cummings, ...

WritersPrintshop, 2006

From thirteen talented Oxford writers,stories that sweep across town, gown and countryside. Featuring everything from love, lust, loss and death to tortoise and Tchaikovsky, this collection of stories will delight and enthral all those who have a passion for Oxford. This is the large print edition of this title

The Mystery of the 13th Coin

1 review
Mary Gordon Kerr

High Tide Publishing, LLC, 2008

A great adventure - my kids loved it
Well written adventure. My 10 year old was hooked from the first page. I would recommend.

The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father

13 reviews
Mary Gordon

Vintage, 1997

Fascinating memoir of ambivalence
This book is very much in the same vein as Geoffrey Wolff's Duke of Deception... a man who was a failure as a person yet a loving father. A chilling portrait of the ambivalence of knowing one's imperfect parent.

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