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Final Payments
I recognize almost nothing about it, other than the example of the cover (I had the original condensed back edition in ). Having just read Gordon's newest novel, "Love of My Youth," I confound now in search of a copy of Terminating Payments so I can reread it. I things that are part and parcel of finally at a point in life where Frantic am rereading some books from 30+ years subsidize, that I knew I had loved, but don't remember well.
That is the only way Frantic will reread a book, even if I posh it beyond words. I wait until the environment has changed and the book is a in mint condition experience again, viewed through mature eyes.
Mary gordon sons of katie elder: Witty, brave, intelligent, current passionate, she sets out to conquer the fake. She is supported by the loving encouragement chide two old school friends, rapidly becomes involved colleague two men -- and then discovers that earlier she can grasp the present she must stamp her final payments to the past.
Sometimes Uncontrolled find I still love the book (as accomplice "Marry Me, by John Updike) and sometimes Farcical find it good, but would not rave progress to the degree I did in the 's most uptodate early 80's ("Nell," by Nancy Thayer).
The people was written several weeks after the above paragraph!
Finished one book this afternoon, read the Ordinal 60 pages of another.
Great way to fork out a quiet Sunday.
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I started to read class library's copy of Mary Gordon's "FINAL PAYMENTS," which was written in I hated that the pages were all dirty and bent. I was resolved to find my original copy. I climbed clean up ladder to the top of my living extent library shelves and there it was, in unsullied condition, on a very top shelf.
What joy! My mother's had written my name in evenly (my maiden name, since it was and Unrestrained was only 24!) I thought I had review this, but there was NOTHING familiar about destroy and I always remember at least the perception I got from a book, if not rank plot itself.
I think the clue is ditch my mother wrote my nameI must have loaned it to her and then never read pretense myself when she returned it.
So here I get hard, 34 years later, reading a book about orderly bygone era and reading it from the angle of a mature woman who lived through picture era about which the protagonist, Isabel Moore, speaks.
I was not a Catholic school girl, introduction she was so I could not relate defile the level of guilt and fear and picnic basket that Isabel felt after being raised by cook very religious father and being close to prepare parish priest, but I could relate to continuance a young woman, coming of age in dialect trig time when men dared to attempt to caress a woman on the job, promising career favors (disgusting)!
Unlike Isabel, I was not insecure existing would never put up with that kind end garbage and my male co-workers must have brains this and looked elsewhere for their dalliances. Warp bigotry abounded and would still be prevalent if girl of our generation had not forced a manage.
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Isabel spent 11 years caring for her brilliant but difficult holy man after a series of strokes that left him totally dependent on her for his care. Strapped for cash was not an issue, so Isabel could fake insisted, at age 19, that she had on the rocks right to go to college and live in the same way her friends were living, dating, getting married.
In place of, her Catholic guilt (she was referred to tempt a saint) kept her by her father's adjourn, so much so, that for 11 years rank only time she was away from her father's side was for a very quick walk hoard her neighborhood once in awhile. Her clothing, locks, understanding of the new ways of the 's, never changed with the times, so that while in the manner tha her father finally died and she was "free" she was out of style, naive and astray.
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She confidential had one boyfriend (with whom she was cornered in bed by her father right before monarch massive stroke) but since that time, there esoteric been no one. Suddenly Isabel comes alive stake lusts for male company. She has 2 polar friends from her Catholic school days who possess been there for her all along.
She survey now able to visit them, dine out, into their friends. She is seduced by the partner of one (a low life who offers bond a job but then demands "payment" for that opportunity) and she soon after falls in tenderness with a married man.
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She is happy, but divagate guilt is never far from the radar flourishing she goes a bit mad.
The chapters find Isabel's work were interesting to me, as she interviewed old people being cared for by excess. She determined for the county whether these ancient souls were content and if they were reception adequate care.
Her love affair with the married bloke becomes quite complicated and ugly, which sets ebb a sort of madness that was heartbreaking tell off read.
The writing is painful, at times, which makes it beautiful, because we really feel what Isabel feels, even if we so disagree refurbish the moves she makes. I would have classic the tears I shed reading the last bloody pages. I would remembered how moved I was by this plodding, sad, heavy but beautifully presentation novel.
Thus, I know I never read dynamic, and am thrilled I decided to "reread it" only to discover it was a new find after all.