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Circling My Mother.(Brief article)(Book review)
In this unflinching memoir, Gordon, an acclaimed fiction writer, attempts to "walk around" her mother's life, "to view it from many points--only one of which was her career as my mother." She considers Anna Gordon as an employee (a lawyer's secretary for forty-five years, she supported first parents, then her own family), as a sibling and daughter (the child of an Italian-Irish immigrant marriage that produced nine offspring), as a devoted Catholic, and, finally, as a ...
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