Mary Gordon Bücher

Mary Gordon gelingt es meisterhaft, die heldenhafte Geschichte der Jungfrau von Orléans auch nach über 500 Jahren in ihrer Widersprüchlichkeit spannend darzustellen. Jeanne d'Arc, Tochter eines reichen Bauern aus Lothringen, hört mit 13 Jahren plötzlich > Stimmen<, die ihr befehlen, den französischen König aufzusuchen und die Engländer aus Frankreich zu vertreiben. Es gelingt ihr tatsächlich, eine Audienz bei Karl VII. zu bekommen. Kurz darauf befreit sie mit der französischen Armee Orléans, das damals von den Engländern belagert wurde. Jeanne d'Arc wird jedoch gefangengenommen, der Ketzerei angeklagt, und schließlich bei lebendigem Leibe verbrannt. Mary Gordon betont in dieser Biographie den Aspekt Jeanne d'Arcs als weltweit positiver Identifikationsfigur. In der Auseinandersetzung mit dem jungen Mädchen, das für seinen Glauben und seine Überzeugung alles aufs Spiel setzt, zeichnet die Autorin ein ungewöhnlich differenziertes Bild.

A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, is a significant feminist essay that explores themes of female creativity, the impact of poverty, and the constraints imposed by society on women. Virginia Woolf examines the lives of women writers, referencing figures such as Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, while also contemplating the hypothetical fate of Shakespeare's gifted sister. The essay argues for the necessity of financial independence and personal space for women to create art and literature. Woolf's work is a critical reflection on the historical and social barriers that have hindered women's artistic expression, making a compelling case for the importance of women's voices in literature. Through her eloquent prose, Woolf not only critiques the past but also inspires future generations to seek their own rooms of creativity and autonomy.

Die einsame Passion der Judith Hearne erzählt die aufrüttelnde Geschichte einer unverheirateten Frau mittleren Alters, die in einer Pension in Belfast wohnt und kaum mehr besitzt als einen letzten Rest Hoffnung auf die große Liebe. Sie wartet. Als ihr mit vierzig plötzlich klar wird, daß Warten nichts gebracht hat, macht sie einen letzten verzweifelten Versuch, nach dem Leben zu greifen, nimmt all ihren Mut und Stolz zusammen und sucht noch einmal Liebe, irgendeine Bindung, dieses Etwas, das ihr Leben abrunden, vervollständigen soll. »Was den Leser sofort gefangennimmt, ist die Kunst des Autors, Personen zu zeichnen und bei aller Tristesse humorvoll zu bleiben.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung »Jeder, der an diesem Roman vorbeigeht, läßt sich eines der kraftvollsten, unheimlichsten und einfühlsamsten Bücher der zeitgenössischen Literatur entgehen.« The New York Times 1987 verfilmt von Jack Clayton, mit Maggie Smith und Bob Hoskins in den Hauptrollen.

This stunning collection of 28 stories brings readers a literary portrait of the American family from 1894 to today. A collection of works that captures the essence of American families from living together and apart to loving and letting go.Regret / Kate Chopin --The lombardy poplar / Mary Wilkins Freeman --The widow's might / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --Old Rogaum and his Theresa / Theodore Dreiser --The sorrows of gin / John Cheever --I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen --Simple and Counsin F.D. Roosevelt Brown / Langston Hughes --The sky is gray / Ernest J. Gaines --My Coney Island uncle / Harvey Swados --My son the murderer / Bernard Malamud --Final dwarf / Henry Roth --And Sarah laughed / Joanne Greenberg --Wedding day / Roberta Silman --The legacy of Beau Kremel / Stephen Wolf --Kiswana Brown / Gloria Naylor --Tuesdays / Mary Hedin --Afloat / Ann Beattie --Winterblossom garden / David Low --Old things / Bobbie Ann Mason --Starlight / Marian Thurm --The writer in the family / E.L. Doctorow --The rich brother / Tobias Wolff --My legacy / Don Zacharia --Violation / Mary Gordon --Appropriate affect / Sue Miller --What I did for love / Lynne Sharon Schwartz --Still of some use / John Updike --Elephant / Raymond Carver

Raised by five intensely religious women and a charismatic, controversial priest, sheltered from the secular world, Felicitas Maria Taylor is intelligent, charming, and desperate for a taste of ordinary happiness. More freedom than she has ever imagined awaits her at Columbia University in the 1960s. There, Felicitas falls in love with the worst man for her -- with shattering results. Now she must turn again to the company of the women who love her as she struggles to embrace the future without betraying the past.

A collection of dazzling and thought-provoking essays from lauded author Mary Gordon Much acclaimed for her novels, Mary Gordon is also a brilliant and wide-ranging essayist. Gathering together twenty-eight of her forays into nonfiction, "Good Boys and Dead Girls" provides a richly autobiographical context for the themes that mark her fiction, such as Irish-American life, Catholicism, embattled families, and the redeeming power of art. Many of the pieces offer insights into artists and other writers: There are admiring accounts of Edith Wharton, Stevie Smith, and Ford Madox Ford, and a piquant critique of the depiction of women by certain celebrated male novelists. Whatever the topic at hand, Gordon proves lively and illuminating company.

Late 18th century Ireland. Two women from noble families - Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby - form an intense romantic friendship. They become famous as the Ladies of Llangollen. Chase is the forgotten queer novel of the inter-war period - an amiable companion to Woolf's time-travelling Orlando and antidote to the misery of The Well of Loneliness.

From the best-selling novelist and a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated modern monk and thinker through his writings.“If Thomas Merton had been a writer and not a monk, we would never have heard of him. If Thomas Merton had been a monk and not a writer, we would never have heard of him.”So begins acclaimed author Mary Gordon in this probing, candid exploration of the man who became the face and voice of mid-twentieth-century American Catholicism. Approaching Merton “writer to writer,” Gordon illuminates his life and work through his letters, journals, autobiography, and fiction. Pope Francis has celebrated Merton as “a man of dialogue,” and here Gordon shows that the dialogue was as much internal as external—an unending conversation, and at times a heated conflict, between Merton the monk and Merton the writer.Rich with excerpts from Merton’s own writing, On Thomas Merton produces an intimate portrait of a man who “lived life in all its imperfectability, reaching toward it in exaltation, pulling back in anguish, but insisting on the primacy of his praise as a man of God.”

Both Ellen and Vincent left Ireland in the early part of this century, one bitterly escaping shame, humiliation, and fear; the other filled with hope for the promise and future of America - the "other side." Together for more than sixty years, they raised a family, savored their dreams, comforted, challenged, and defied one another. Their desires and fears are manifest in the generations that follow - children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, each carrying as a legacy of the past the need to find a true place in the family and in the world at large. As she writes of passage and change, of the struggle of generations to find a common ground, Mary Gordon reveals that the dramas wrought by social and cultural forces can be resolved only in the realm of the heart.

"Unbeknownst to her many fans, Quin Archer, the revenge-loving queen of the reality-TV show "Payback," was once an angry teen named Heidi--and her true story may be known only to Agnes, who was her art teacher at a private New England girls' school in the 1970s. Then a young woman herself, Agnes saw a spark of originality in the brooding Heidi. But when she suggests Heidi visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the girl returns with a disastrous account of having been picked up at the museum by an older man. Agnes's stunned, victim-blaming response will haunt both women for decades. Gordon narrates this tale of #metoo misunderstanding, from a time before there was language to contain it, with a sharp sense of life's changing tempo, carrying us through Heidi's disappearance and reinvention as Quin, and Agnes's escape into career and family in Italy--until, inevitably, they meet again. A remarkable book about the precise weight of our words and deeds, from a writer whose moral vision is deeply rewarding in its subtlety"--

At a museum lecture, artist Monica Szabo meets B, a commodities trader who has been anonymously buying her paintings. He offers to patronize her so that she can paint full time. Then sex comes into it, raising questions about the kinds of currency exchanged between people.

With her husband abroad, an art historian employs a devout but difficult nanny, unsettling her domestic life as well as her view of motherhood--and of herself When Anne Foster's husband accepts a yearlong teaching job in France, she decides to resume her own career in art history, which includes cataloging the work of a compelling and long-neglected painter, Caroline Watson. To care for her children, Anne employs the pious Laura Post. Though the young woman is well liked by the children, she rubs Anne the wrong way. Should Anne be more compassionate, or should she behave more like the willful artist--and unapologetically bad mother--she's so fascinated by in Watson? As the discord mounts between Anne and Laura, the need for answers sharpens." Men and Angels" is a riveting and refreshingly unsentimental inquiry into motherhood and sacrifice.

Barcelona. 20 cm. 304p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial. Mary Gordon .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 847454100X

Na een volslagen beknot en opgesloten leven moet een jonge Amerikaanse van Ierse afkomst een eigen bestaan opbouwen, wat met vallen en opstaan gepaard gaat.