Advanced
Error loading page.
Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading.
Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help.
Title details for The Liar's Wife by Mary Gordon - Wait list

The Liar's Wife

by Mary Gordon
ebook
Read a sample Read a sample

The award-winning author at her storytelling best: four compelling novellas of Americans in Europe and Europeans in America.
 
In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of the title story, who gets more out of life than most of us; and Thomas Mann, opening the heart of a high-school kid in the Midwest. These narratives dazzle on the surface with beautifully rendered settings and vistas, and dig deep psychologically. At every turn, Mary Gordon reveals in her characters’ interactions those crucial flashes of understanding that change lives forever. So richly developed it’s hard to believe they fit into novella-size packages, these tales carry us away both as individual stories and as a larger experience of Gordon’s literary mastery and human sympathy.
This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.  

Expand title description text
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: August 5, 2014

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780307908889
  • Release date: August 5, 2014

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780307908889
  • File size: 2163 KB
  • Release date: August 5, 2014
Loading
Loading

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Fiction Literature Historical Fiction

Languages

English

The award-winning author at her storytelling best: four compelling novellas of Americans in Europe and Europeans in America.
 
In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her first, compromising love affair; the charming Irish liar of the title story, who gets more out of life than most of us; and Thomas Mann, opening the heart of a high-school kid in the Midwest. These narratives dazzle on the surface with beautifully rendered settings and vistas, and dig deep psychologically. At every turn, Mary Gordon reveals in her characters’ interactions those crucial flashes of understanding that change lives forever. So richly developed it’s hard to believe they fit into novella-size packages, these tales carry us away both as individual stories and as a larger experience of Gordon’s literary mastery and human sympathy.
This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.  

Expand title description text
Fiction Literature Historical Fiction