Praise for "The Shadow Man," Mary Gordon's Memoir of Her Father
"Gordon is truly brilliant and fearless in her ability to look even
when her eyes burn and her heart breaks."
--"Los Angeles Times
""Passionate and extravagant... The reader must testify... to the
dominance of such absolute literary power."
--"The New York Times Book Review
""This knotty, deeply personal book is irradiated by flashes of
lyric brilliance."
--"The New Yorker
""The rich and painful memoir of a daughter's loss and of the
myriad ways in which a vacuum can shape a life... It possesses a
candor that is neither self-conscious nor artful."
--"The Boston Globe
"Praise for "The Stories of Mary Gordon""
""With breathtaking succintness, she can sum up a lifetime
dilemma--a character trapped between her past and present."
--"Los Angeles Times
""It's been a long time since I've read a collection of short
stories that so utterly fulfilled the promise of serious fiction:
to let you be other people for a short while, and then to return to
yourself, wonderfully enriched."
--"The Boston Globe"
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