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Mary Gordon is the author of the acclaimed novels Final Payments, The Other Side, and Spending. Her most recent work includes a biography of Joan of Arc and a collection of autobiographical essays, Seeing Through Places. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and won the 1997 O. Henry Award for best short story. Her new novel, Pearl, explores the role of art, beauty and religion in our daily lives, the pitfalls of political action, and the overwhelming, sustaining bond between mother and child.
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