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There Your Heart Lies - by Mary Gordon (Paperback)

There Your Heart Lies - by  Mary Gordon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>At nineteen, Marian Taylor cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family and left America to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War--an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties and diagnosed with cancer, Marian finally shares what happened to her during those years with her granddaughter Amelia, a young woman of good heart but only a vague notion of life's purpose. Marian's secret history--of personal and ethical challenges nearly unthinkable to Amelia's generation, of the unexpected gifts of true love and true friendship--compels Amelia to make her own journey to Spain to reconcile her grandmother's past with her own uncertain future. Moving and deeply felt, <i>There Your Heart Lies </i>explores how character is forged in a particular moment in history--and passed down through generations.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Exceptional. . . . Magnetically realized. . . . Gordon illuminates her scenes with kinetic precision." --<i>The New York Times Book Review<br></i><br>"Radiant. . . . Gordon journeys deep into the hearts and minds of women, still yearning, even at the last." --<i>O, The Oprah Magazine<br></i><br>"Intellectually and emotionally involving. . . . [<i>There Your Heart Lies</i>] translates inexplicable and inexpressible experience into understanding." --Minneapolis <i>Star Tribune</i> <p/>"An emotionally and historically rich work with a strong character portrait holding together its disparate parts." --<i>Kirkus Reviews </i>(starred review)<br><i> </i><br> "[An] astute and powerful variation on the Jamesian theme of American innocents abroad. . . . Gordon's masterful pairing of passionately descriptive, stunningly revelatory action scenes with . . . churning interior monologues conveys with arresting insights and startling immediacy the intersection of brutality and faith." --<i>Booklist </i>(starred review)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Mary Gordon is the author of eight novels, including <i>Final Payments</i>, <i>Pearl</i>, and <i>The Love of My Youth</i>; six works of nonfiction, including the memoirs <i>The Shadow Man</i> and <i>Circling My Mother</i>; and three collections of short fiction, including <i>The Stories of Mary Gordon</i>, 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.

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