Final Payments - Hardcover

Gordon, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394427939 ISBN 13: 9780394427935

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1978

Synopsis

After eleven isolated years caring for her invalid father, a professor who suffered a stroke upon discovering her in bed with a student, Isabel Moore tries to reenter the world with the help of two very different friends

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Review:

A first class writer. . . . A splendid balancing act of the intellect and the emotions on a high-tension wire. The New York Times
"A novel of great vitality and wit. . . . It can be read on many levels and enjoyed on every one of them." Philadelphia Inquirer
"Incredibly perceptive and good." Houston Chronicle
"Every so often a first novel of extraordinary quality . . . becomes a commercial as well as artistic success. . . . It couldn't happen to a better novel." Los Angeles Times"

"A first class writer. . . . A splendid balancing act of the intellect and the emotions on a high-tension wire."--The New York Times

"A novel of great vitality and wit. . . . It can be read on many levels and enjoyed on every one of them." --Philadelphia Inquirer

"Incredibly perceptive and good."--Houston Chronicle

"Every so often a first novel of extraordinary quality . . . becomes a commercial as well as artistic success. . . . It couldn't happen to a better novel."--Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

Mary Gordon is the author of the novels Spending, The Company of Women, The Rest of Life, Final Payments, and The Other Side, as well as the memoir The Shadow Man. She has received a Lila Wallace--Reader's Digest Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 1997 O. Henry Award for best story. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0394427939
• ISBN 13: 9780394427935
• Binding: Hardcover