The stories of Mary Gordon.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2006.
- viii, 457 p. ; 25 cm.
City life -- My podiatrist tells me a story about a boy and a dog -- Separation -- Death in Naples -- Intertexuality -- The deacon -- Bishop's house -- The translator's husband -- The epiphany branch -- Cleaning up -- I need to tell three stories and to speak of love and death -- The baby -- Rosecliff -- The blind spot -- Walt -- Storytelling -- Sick in London -- Conversations in prosperity -- The healing -- Eleanor's music -- Three men tell me stories about their boyhoods -- Vision -- Temporary shelter -- Delia -- The only son of the doctor -- The neighborhood -- Watching the tango -- Agnes -- The magician's wife -- The imagination of disaster -- Out of the fray -- The other woman -- Billy -- Safe -- The dancing party -- Violation -- Mrs. Cassidy's last year -- A writing lesson -- The thorn -- Eileen -- Now I am married.