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Mary
Gordon Reads From her Upcoming Novel, Pearl
On
Wednesday, October 9, the English Department and the Creative
Writing Program hosted Mary Gordon, 71, for the reading
from her upcoming novel, Pearl, to be published this
year. The book is set in Dublin and concerns a young woman
who chains herself to the American embassy to call attention
to the human capacity for inflicting harm. Gordon, who is
the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard,
is the author of five highly acclaimed novels, a book of short
stories, a book of essays, a collection of novellas and a
recent memoir about her father.
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