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Florence Gordon

"Meet Florence Gordon: blunt, brilliant, cantankerous and passionate, feminist icon to young women, invisible and underappreciated by most everyone else. At seventy-five, Florence has earned her right to set down the burdens of family and work and shape her legacy at long last. But just as she...

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Main Author: Morton, Brian, 1955- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Subjects:
Older women > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Authorship > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Psychological fiction > New York
Summary: "Meet Florence Gordon: blunt, brilliant, cantankerous and passionate, feminist icon to young women, invisible and underappreciated by most everyone else. At seventy-five, Florence has earned her right to set down the burdens of family and work and shape her legacy at long last. But just as she is beginning to write her long-deferred memoir, her son Daniel returns to New York from Seattle with his wife and daughter, and they embroil Florence in their dramas, clouding the clarity of her days with the frustrations of middle-age and the confusions of youth"--
Item Description: "A novel"--Jacket.
Physical Description: 306 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780544309869 (hbk.)
0544309863 (hbk.)
Author Notes: BRIAN MORTON is the author of four previous novels, including Starting Out in the Evening , which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and was made into an acclaimed feature film, and A Window Across the River , which was a Book Club selection of the Today show. He teaches at New York University, the Bennington Writing Seminars, and Sarah Lawrence College, where he also directs the writing program. He lives in New York.

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