Circling My Mother

Name: Circling My Mother
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ISBN: 9780307277619

ISBN-10: 0307277615

ISBN-13: 9780307277619

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mary Gordon

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In this triumphant return to nonfiction after two critically acclaimed works of fiction, Mary Gordon gives us a rich, bittersweet memoir about her mother, their relationship and her role as daughter. Anna Gagliano Gordon, who died in 2002 at the age of 94, lived a life colored by large forces: immigration, world war, the Great Depression, and physical affliction--she contracted Polio at the age of 3 and experienced the ravages of both alcoholism and dementia. A hard-working single mother--Gordon’s father died when she was still a girl--Anna was the personification of the culture of the mid-century American Catholic working class. Yet, even in the face of these setbacks, she managed hold…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.15" wide x 8.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English