Good Boys and Dead Girls (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Gordon
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Feminism, Abortion, Catholics or Catholic Church
Mary Gordon is best known as a novelist, and more particularly as a Catholic novelist, a writer who has staked out a recognizable fictional territory for herself and explored it with a subtle yet rigorous moral perceptiveness. In Final Payments (1978). The Company of Women (1981), Men and Angels (1985), The Other Side (1989), and the short stories in Temporary Shelter (1987), she has proved a sensitive recorder of the dramas emerging from the problematic collisions of spirit and flesh, of faith, love, sexuality, suffering, and salvation. With the...
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