The Company of Women - Hardcover

Gordon, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394505085 ISBN 13: 9780394505084

Publisher: Random House, 1981

Synopsis

Five Catholic, working women and a charismatic priest, Father Cyprian, find their values, expectations, and relationships threatened and transformed by the charming, intelligent, rebellious, and independent daughter of one of the women

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"A superb, stunningly written novel." The Philadelphia Inquirer
Raised by five intensely religious women and a charismatic, controversial priest, sheltered from the secular world, Felicitas Maria Taylor is intelligent, charming, and desperate for a taste of ordinary happiness. More freedom than she has ever imagined awaits her at Columbia University in the 1960s. There, Felicitas falls in love with the worst man for her -- with shattering results. Now she must turn again to the company of the women who love her as she struggles to embrace the future without betraying the past.

About the Author:

Mary Gordon is the author of seven novels, including Final Payments, Pearl, and The Love of My Youth; six works of nonfiction, including the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and three collections of fic­tion, including The Stories of Mary Gordon, which was awarded the Story Prize. She has received many other honors, includ­ing a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0394505085
• ISBN 13: 9780394505084
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 291