Mary Gordon

Felicitas Maria Taylor was called after the one virgin martyr whose name contained somé hope for ordinary humán happiness. This joke was made for the first time at Felicitas' baptism in May of 1949Jby one of her three sodmothers. There were three because Felicitas' mother coulJlwTdfecide among...

Traces the relation of literature to human life, in a collection of essays, such as the title piece that takes on Dreiser, Faulkner, and Updike, and others about abortion, male domination, and the Church.