Spring 1988

Mary Gordon

Gordon’s first novel, Final Payments, was published in 1978 to tremendous critical acclaim. This was followed quickly by The Company of Women in 1981. 1985 brought Men and Angels, a novel about a working mother who develops a dangerous relationship to the woman who cares for her children. . She followed that up with a collection of short stories entitled Temporary Shelter in 1987, and The Other Side, a novel, in 1989.