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The Liar's Wife: Four Novellas

Name: The Liar's Wife: Four Novellas
Brand: Brilliance Audio
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Written by Mary Gordon

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The beloved author at her storytelling best: four wonderful novellas of Americans abroad 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 novella, who gets more out of life than most of us; and Thomas Mann, opening the heart of a high-school kid in America. These stories dazzle on the surface, with beautifully rendered settings and vistas, and dig deep psychologically. At every turn Gordon reveals in her characters' interactions those crucial flashes of understanding that change lives forever. So richly developed it is hard to believe they fit into novella-sized packages, these tales carry us away both as individual stories and as a larger, book-length experience of Gordon's mastery and human sympathy.

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LanguageEnglish

PublisherBrilliance Audio

Release dateAug 5, 2014

ISBN9781491505922

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Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon is the author of the novel Spending.

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Tin Man: Sarah Winman Produces a Rare Gem in This Tale of Liberty and Love
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'Real Estate' ls An Elegant Exploration Of The Concept Of — And Desire For — Home
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Watch the Only Existing Footage of Clarice Lispector
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Watch the Only Existing Footage of Clarice Lispector
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Kevin Wilson: Children Bursting Into Flames… Metaphor or No?
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Samantha Irby On Oversharing And The Art Of Confessional Writing
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Samantha Irby On Oversharing And The Art Of Confessional Writing
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Samantha Irby is not shy about her shortcomings. The blogger and author of the essay collections "We Are Never Meeting in Real Life" and "Meaty" writes both openly and hilariously about dealing with Crohn's disease, awkward dating experiences and bad
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Bonding Over Bog Bodies In 'Meet Me At The Museum'
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The Experiment in Irresponsibility
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The Experiment in Irresponsibility
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Claire Tomalin on Hiring (and Dating) a Young Martin Amis
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In his great critical work The Sense of an Ending, Frank Kermode wrote about the end-directedness of fiction, the way that novels rehearse and forestall their endings – a process he called peripeteia. One thing he doesn’t discuss in that book is what
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Ten Must-Read Crime Books Set in the American West
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Ten Must-Read Crime Books Set in the American West
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This list of must-read crime titles forms part of a lesser-known West, an awesomely weird landscape in which the line between Good and Evil shimmers like a mirage. The post Ten Must-Read Crime Books Set in the American West appeared first on The Mill
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The Blue-collar Bard
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Delia Ephron
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Delia Ephron
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Your memoir chronicles your leukemia diagnosis in 2017, five years after losing your sister Nora to the same cancer. Throughout the book, you repeat this mantra: “You are not your sister.” Do you still find yourself saying that? I never said that to
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The Lighter Side of Dan Chaon
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The Lighter Side of Dan Chaon
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I had a dystopian idea in the beginning, and in the end the dystopia caught up with me. The post The Lighter Side of Dan Chaon appeared first on The Millions.
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Fiction To Look Out For In 2023
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During the lockdown years, I kept reading articles by novelists saying how unproductive they were feeling, how virus narratives had colonised their subconscious minds, destroying the creative impulse. 2023’s novels – or at least those of them I’ve re
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Minor Aesthetics: On Helen DeWitt’s ‘The English Understand Wool’
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Minor Aesthetics: On Helen DeWitt’s ‘The English Understand Wool’
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The story that 'The English Understand Wool' tells is a DeWittian distillate. The post Minor Aesthetics: On Helen DeWitt’s ‘The English Understand Wool’ appeared first on The Millions.
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