Bill Gordon

Mary After All (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the tradition of Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked Into Doors comes a brilliant feat of literary ventriloquism, a debut novel by a male author introducing a one-of-a-kind female narrator. Meet Mary Nolan (née Marelli), a tough-talking Jersey City native who comes of age during the turbulent 1970s. Adored by the small-time mafia types in her extended Italian American familyformidable but doting figures like her grandpa Louie, Tony the Horse, and Charlie CuppacoffeeMary grew up believing she could always count on men to protect her. But after marrying young to escape her parents, Mary finds herself sidelined by life with a philandering husband and two needy young sons, her dreams as shattered as the city around her. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Mary tells of her unusual route to independence, and about the lives she touchesand is touched byalong the way. From Aunt Dot and Aunt Loretta, who get her started in "business," to the ex-nuns who listen to her troubles even as they ask her for relationship advice, to the nosy neighborhood housewives determined to befriend her, Mary finds allies in the unlikeliest of places. How she learns to stand on her own "legitimately"triumphantlyis the heart of Bill Gordon's remarkable first novel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307423177
• Artikelnr.: 38198892

Autorenporträt

Bill Gordon's work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Mississippi Review, New York Press, Christopher Street, and Downtown. He received an MFA from Columbia University. He grew up in Jersey City and now lives in New York. Mary After All is his first novel.