There Your Heart Lies
A Novel
At nineteen, Marian Taylor cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family and left America to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War-an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties and diagnosed with cancer, Marian finally shares what happened to her during those years with her granddaughter Amelia, a young woman of good heart but only a vague notion of life's purpose. Marian's secret history-of personal and ethical challenges nearly unthinkable to Amelia's generation, of the unexpected gifts of true love and true friendship-compels Amelia to make her own journey to Spain to reconcile her grandmother's past…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-307-90795-0
- EAN: 9780307907950
- Produktnummer: 20440523
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 996 KB
Über den Autor
Mary Gordon is the author of eight novels, including Final Payments, Pearl, and The Love of My Youth; six works of nonfiction, including the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and three collections of short fiction, including The Stories of Mary Gordon, which was awarded the Story Prize. She has received many other honors, including a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.
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