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We will leave Joseph walking down the corridor. We will not follow him; he would not wish to be followed.
And we will leave Pearl and Maria to themselves.
We will hope for the best.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mary Gordon is the author of the novels
The Company of Women, The Rest of Life,
and
The Other Side,
as well as a critically acclaimed memoir,
The Shadow Man,
among other books. Winner of the Lila Wallace– Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 1996 O. Henry Award for best short story, she teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.
Also by Mary Gordon
FICTION
Final Payments
The Company of Women
Men and Angels
Temporary Shelter
The Other Side
The Rest of Life
Spending
NONFICTION
Good Boys and Dead Girls
The Shadow Man
Seeing Through Places
Joan of Arc
Copyright © 2005 by Mary Gordon
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gordon, Mary, [date].
Pearl/Mary Gordon.
p. cm.
1. Students, Foreign—Northern Ireland—Fiction. 2. Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. 3. Americans—Northern Ireland—Fiction. 4. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 5. Protest movements—Fiction. 6. Northern Ireland—Fiction. 7. Hunger strikes—Fiction. I. Title.
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