The stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writer's craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. These pieces encompass the pre- and postwar Irish American family life she circles in the early Temporary Shelter series, as well as a wealth of new fiction that brings her contemporary characters into middle age; it is their turn to face bodily decline, mortality, and the more complex anxieties of modern life. With their powerful insights into how we make do, both socially and privately, these stories are a treasure of American fiction.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
NEW AND UNCOLLECTED
City Life
My Podiatrist Tells Me a Story About a Boy and a Dog
Separation
Death in Naples
Intertextuality
The Deacon
Bishop’s House
The Translator’s Husband
The Epiphany Branch
Cleaning Up
I Need to Tell Three Stories and to Speak of Love and Death
The Baby
Rosecliff
The Blind Spot
Walt
Storytelling
Sick in London
Conversations in Prosperity
The Healing
Eleanor’s Music
Three Men Tell Me Stories About Their Boyhoods
Vision
from TEMPORARY SHELTER
Temporary Shelter
Delia
The Only Son of the Doctor
The Neighborhood
Watching the Tango
Agnes
The Magician’s Wife
The Imagination of Disater
Out of the Fray
The Other Woman
Billy
Safe
The Dancing Party
Violation
Mrs. Cassidy’s Last Year
A Writing Lesson
The Thorn
Eileen
Now I Am Married
Acknowledgments
