Final Payments (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Gordon
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, New York City, Religion, Friendship, Feminism, Lesbianism or lesbians, Women’s issues, Fathers, Adultery, Death or dying, Sick persons, Lifestyles, Catholics or Catholic Church, Nursing or nurses, Happiness
- Locales: New York, NY
Final Payments begins and ends with its central character and narrator, Isabel Moore, contemplating the death of her father. For eleven years before his death, she cared for him in his illness. Now, at age thirty, she is determined to invent a life for herself. Before she can embrace life fully, however, Isabel must learn to acknowledge and accept the risks it poses and must come to terms with the legacy she has inherited.
This legacy is cultural, philosophical, emotional, and material. Isabel was raised in a conservative Irish-Catholic neighborhood in Queens, New York....
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