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Gail Godwin
From New York Times-bestselling, three-time National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin, a consideration of what makes for a life well lived--for readers of Oliver Sacks's Gratitude and Deborah Levy's Cost…
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From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin, a luminously written, heartbreaking book (John Irving).
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rom three-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin, a vibrant portrait of her writing and publishing life.
Heart is a profound, funny, and moving selection of musings on the human heart as the seat of passion, longing, sadness, and love. In a series of thematically driven chapters…
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Narrates the life of a young female Episcopal priest in High Balsam, a small, economically distressed Smoky Mountain town, which is shaken up by the arrival of three strangers.
A father’s death brings together his wife and two grown daughters and their contrasting lifestyles, experiences, and expectations.
An attractive woman who is married to a California politician realizes that her husband is only obsessed with her flawless beauty and is not concerned about her as a person.
On vacation in Majorca with John, her husband, and Robin, his illegitimate son, Dane begins to see their marriage in a completely new light.
Fifteen stories including Dream Children, A Sorrowful Woman, and Death in Puerto Vallarta provide portraits of people who find happiness in the world of fantasy and imagination.
Forty-year-old actress Justin Stokes recalls the summer she turned fourteen and her relationship with Ursula DeVane, the older woman who made that summer memorable.
From the author of A Mother and Two Daughters, here is Gail Goodwin’s first novel since A Southern Family, which was on The New York Times bestseller list for 11…
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Here is the finest achievement of Gail Godwin’s distinguished career. A Southern Family portrays a woman caught between her roots and her hard-won independence–a family forced to reevaluate itself in…
As always, wry, beady-eyed, acute. –Margaret Atwood, via Twitter From the bestselling, award-winning author of Flora and Evensong comes the story of two remarkable women and the complex friendship between…
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The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin.
The brilliant, charismatic Magda Danvers had once taken the academic world by storm with her controversial book, The Book of Hell, and now, gravely ill, she still influences and transforms…
As Castro clamps down on Cuba in the summer of 1959, Emma Gant begins her career as a reporter at The Miami Star and finds that her life, like a…
Years ago, domineering Magda swept the shy, virginal Francis into one of the most extraordinary marriages imaginable. Now, as she lies dying, Francis’s role as the Good Husband is put…
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The death of her beloved novelist uncle forces thirty-two-year-old Violet Clay, currently producing jacket paintings for Gothic romances, to reassess her vision of herself as an artist and the evaded…
