The Boston Globe, April 14th, 1991
GOOD BOYS AND DEAD GIRLS And Other Essays. By Mary Gordon. Viking. 252 pp. $19.95. Mary Gordon has written with such intricacy and command in her novels that her voice seems synonymous with the form: It's easy to forget she's anything besides a novelist, those familial plots spilling over with guilt and love and the inner landscape of a moral life. From "Final Payments" to last year's "The Other Side," Gordon has come through like a born storyteller, comfortable with sprawled-out guests and late-night hours before a dying fire. But she also has to her credit a finely wrought collection of shor...
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