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Good Boys and Dead Girls and Other Essays
Good Boys and Dead Girls and Other Essays Author:Mary Gordon A collection of essays about the oversung and the unsung in literature, including essays about Edith Wharton, Flannery O'Connor, abortion, Catholicism and class. — Contents: — Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome and the shorter fiction -- — Flannery O"Connor: The habit of being -- — William Trevor's Fools of Fortune -- — Christa Wolf: Accident! A... more » day's news --
Mary McCarthy: Cannibals and missionaries --
Stevie Smith: Novel on yellow paper --
Adam Hochschild: Half the way home--
Virginia Woolf: A room of one's own --
Edna O'Brien: A fanatic heart --
The priestly comedy of J.F. Powers --
Ingeborg Bachmann: Children were only allowed to whisper --
David Plante: A world of baffled love --
Ford Madox Ford: a man who loved women, a womanly man.« less