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Synopsis
The acclaimed novelist reflects on the role of places in shaping her life, from the mysterious "house next door" to the local Catholic Church and the seductions of Rome and New York City.
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Susan Salter Reynolds "Los Angeles Times Book Review" When a memoir is well told, rich with detail, as this one is, the things and people in it remain truly unique in the writer's memory; neater explanations would be fiction.
Colleen Kelly Warren
"St. Louis Post-Dispatch"
Gordon writes with soul-searching honesty of the circumlocutional route
she has traveled to get home.
Sheila Kohler
"San Francisco Chronicle"
Gordon evokes the lost objects of all our childhoods...[She] is capable of describing the complexity of the human heart with eloquence and intelligence.
Susan Salter Reynolds
"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
When a memoir is well told, rich with detail, as this one is, the things and people in it remain truly unique in the writer's memory; neater explanations would be fiction.
Judith Thurman
Mary Gordon takes risks, personal and literary, that are necessary if one's work is to flourish, deepen, and become masterful, as hers has. Seeing Through Places is a marvelously suggestive, accurate, and moving mirror of a time, an ethos, and a landscape.
Rosemary Dinnage
"The New York Times Book Review"
Re-evoking the places and objects that were once so much darker and more fearful is a fine work of restoration. Gordon remembers objects as meticulously as a still-life painter....[She] knits them all together in a satisfying pattern.
Colleen Kelly Warren"St. Louis Post-Dispatch"Gordon writes with soul-searching honesty of the circumlocutional route she has traveled to get home.
Sheila Kohler"San Francisco Chronicle"Gordon evokes the lost objects of all our childhoods...[She] is capable of describing the complexity of the human heart with eloquence and intelligence.
Susan Salter Reynolds"Los Angeles Times Book Review"When a memoir is well told, rich with detail, as this one is, the things and people in it remain truly unique in the writer's memory; neater explanations would be fiction.
Judith ThurmanMary Gordon takes risks, personal and literary, that are necessary if one's work is to flourish, deepen, and become masterful, as hers has. Seeing Through Places is a marvelously suggestive, accurate, and moving mirror of a time, an ethos, and a landscape.
About the Author
Mary Gordon is the author of the fiction The Company of Women, The Rest of Life, and most recently, Spending, as well as a critically acclaimed memoir, The Shadow Man. Winner of the Lila Acheson Wallace Reader's Digest Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 1997 O. Henry Prize for the best short story, she teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.
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- PublisherPrentice Hall & IBD
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0684862549
- ISBN 13 9780684862545
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages254
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