The Rest of Life (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Gordon
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novellas
- Genres: Short fiction, Character study
- Subjects: Children, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Marriage, Guilt, Women’s issues, Women, Divorce, Catholics or Catholic Church, Middle age, Career women, Psychiatry or psychiatrists, Aging, Protestantism or Protestant churches, Alzheimer’s disease
The central figure in “Immaculate Man,” the first of these novellas, is a nameless divorcee in her forties who works in a shelter for battered women. She has become the lover of the priest who runs the shelter, Father Clement. With the connivance of an older, crippled homosexual priest, Father Boniface, who brought Father Clement into the priesthood but has never touched him, she manages to keep Father Clement’s attention away from the sin he is committing with her. In fact, she is less worried that his conscience will direct him to end their affair than she is that a younger...
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