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Author:	Mary Gordon	Format:	Paperback
Publisher:	Vintage Books	ISBN-10:	0679749314
Edition Description:	Reprint	ISBN-13:	9780679749318
Educational Level:	--	Product Type:	--
Publication Year:	1997	Subject:	--
Language:	English	Condition:	Good

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Novelist Mary Gordon confronts the truth about her late father in this compelling memoir. David Gordon, a Jew who converted to Roman Catholicism, died when the author was seven. She had always idealized him as a wonderful man who had loved her completely. The truth about her father that her adult exploration uncovered was devastating. He was not the handsome hero she remembered, but a toothless, obese, deceitful man. Despite his Jewish background, he was an anti-Semite, a quality he shared with his wife. In this book, Gordon examines not only her father's character, but her own Jewish identity, buried by a strict Roman Catholic upbringing.
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Height:	8.5 in.
Width:	5.3 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	9.6 oz.

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In The Shadow Man, the bestselling author of Final Payments and The Company of Women elevates the memoir into an uncompromising and unforgettable art form as she seeks to learn the truth about her lost father. 20 photos. Mary Gordon's father died when she was seven. For a long time she was content to remember David Gordon as the man who had loved her 'more than God' and then vanished. In this book on of our finest novelists sets out to retrieve her father from the mausoleum of mourning. What she discovers--in libraries, archives, and her own memory--tests her credulity and her forgiveness.
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"A masterpiece. Brilliantly intense, dazzling. I was moved, overwhelmed, knocked out." advertisement - Alice Adams "Elegantly and luminously written." advertisement - Margaret Drabble "Mary Gordon's 'The Shadow Man' is not so much a story as an investigation, and not so much an investigation as a treatise--on deception and self-deception, on meaning and comprehension, on truth and forgiveness." Los Angeles Times Book Review - Mary McNamara (05/26/1996) "...she has written a passionate and extravagant account of coming to terms with her own father...It's nothing less than a matter of life and death, for the stakes are mortal ones....The narrative is strongest and liveliest when the daughter is able to see herself in incongruous relation to institutions and objects that are not, as she is, obsessed with a single passion." New York Times Book Review - William H. Pritchard (05/26/1996) "So dense with anguish is Gordon's writing that her emotion rises from the page to engulf the reader....Beautiful, painful, shocking, a profound exploration of love, memory, shame, recuperation--a remarkable work." Ferron

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The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father

Mary Gordon

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Binding:	Paperback
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	0679749314
Publication Date:	1997-04-29
Publisher:	Vintage

Pages:	304
Height:	0.6000 inches
Width:	5.1000 inches
Weight:	0.6000 pounds

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