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Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon is the author of six novels, including Pearl (2005), three novellas, and three works of non-fiction, the most recent of which is Reading jesus (2009). She is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College.

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The Imagination of Disaster

Mary Gordon

‘We live knowing not only that we will die, that we may suffer, but that all that we hold dear will finish; that there will be no more familiar.’

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