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Final Payments
Final Payments
Author: Mary Gordon
When Isabel Moore's father dies, she finds herself at the age of thirty suddenly freed from eleven years of unbroken devotion to a helpless, bed-ridden man. Standing at his open grave, she realizes that she has no idea what she wants now, that she must indeed "invent" a new existence.
ISBN: 350409
Publication Date: 6/6/2006
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Mary Gordon is a superb writer and this book was auspicious beginning of her career. Gordon is an intelligent, insightful, and witty writer.

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When Isabel Moore's father dies, she finds herself, at the age of thirty, suddenly freed from eleven years of uninterrupted care for a helpless man. With all the patterns of her life suddenly rendered meaningless, she turns to childhood friends for support, gets a job, and becomes involved with two very different men. But just as her future begins to emerge, her past throws up a daunting challenge.

A moving story of self-reinvention, Final Payments is a timeless exploration of the nature of friendship, desire, guilt, and love.

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A first class writer. . . . A splendid balancing act of the intellect and the emotions on a high-tension wire.The New York Times

"A novel of great vitality and wit. . . . It can be read on many levels and enjoyed on every one of them." Philadelphia Inquirer

"Incredibly perceptive and good."Houston Chronicle

"Every so often a first novel of extraordinary quality . . . becomes a commercial as well as artistic success. . . . It couldn't happen to a better novel."Los Angeles Times


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