The liar's wife : four novellas / Mary Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Mary, 1949-

Standardized Title:

Novellas. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.

Self-actualization (Psychology).

Truthfulness and falsehood--Fiction.

Truthfulness and falsehood.

Graduate students--Fiction.

Graduate students.

High school students--Fiction.

High school students.

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

American fiction.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

288 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Other Title:

Liar's wife : four novellas

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon, 2014.

Summary:

"The beloved author at her storytelling best: four wonderful novellas of Americans abroad and Europeans in America. In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of the title novella, who gets more out of life than most of us; and Thomas Mann, opening the heart of a high-school kid in America. These stories dazzle on the surface, with beautifully rendered settings and vistas, and dig deep psychologically. At every turn Gordon reveals in her characters' interactions those crucial flashes of understanding that change lives forever. So richly developed it is hard to believe the tales fit into novella-sized packages, these tales carry us away both as individual stories and as a larger, book-length experience of Gordon's mastery and human sympathy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The liar's wife

Simone Weil in New York

Thomas Mann in Gary, Indiana

Fine art.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780307377432 ;