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LEADER: 01999cam a2200289 a 4500
001 2013043926
003 DLC
005 20150320083356.0
008 131121s2014 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2013043926
020 $a9780307377432 (hardcover)
020 $z9780307908889 (electronic book)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS3557.O669$bL63 2014
082 00 $a813/.54$223
084 $aFIC019000$aFIC044000$aFIC014000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aGordon, Mary,$d1949-
240 10 $aNovellas.$kSelections
245 14 $aThe liar's wife :$b[four novellas] /$cMary Gordon.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon,$cc2014.
300 $a288 p.$c25 cm.
520 $a"The beloved author at her storytelling best: four wonderful novellas of Americans abroad and Europeans in America. In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of the title novella, who gets more out of life than most of us; and Thomas Mann, opening the heart of a high-school kid in America. These stories dazzle on the surface, with beautifully rendered settings and vistas, and dig deep psychologically. At every turn Gordon reveals in her characters' interactions those crucial flashes of understanding that change lives forever. So richly developed it is hard to believe they tales fit into novella-sized packages, these tales carry us away both as individual stories and as a larger, book-length experience of Gordon's mastery and human sympathy"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aThe liar's wife -- Simone Weil in New York -- Thomas Mann in Gary, Indiana -- Fine arts.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Contemporary Women.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Historical.$2bisacsh