The Rest of Life: Three Novellas
Now in a trade paperback edition, these beautifully written, deceptively simple novellas introduce three women, each of whom tells the story of the lover who has most altered her life. In stunning prose, Mary Gordon examines the conflicting desires of the mind and the flesh--and measures the...
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Now in a trade paperback edition, these beautifully written, deceptively simple novellas introduce three women, each of whom tells the story of the lover who has most altered her life. In stunning prose, Mary Gordon examines the conflicting desires of the mind and the flesh--and measures the power of the place in which love resides.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140149074 (0140149074)
Publish date: August 1st 1994
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
The Rest of Life is comprised of three novellas. They may as well be one. There is such a strong similarity in these stories of a woman, the lover she changed and the love that changed her. Which would be okay... if the stories were interesting. These were not.What makes Mary Gordon's three nove...