Final Payments
#2732 of 8,085 books · #1234 in Fiction
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1978).
When Isabel Moore's father dies, she finds herself, at the age of thirty, suddenly freed from eleven years of uninterrupted care for a helpless man. With all the patterns of her life suddenly rendered meaningless, she turns to childhood friends for support, gets a job, and becomes involved with two very different men. But just as her future begins to emerge, her past throws up a daunting challenge. A moving story of self-reinvention, Final Payments is a timeless exploration of the nature of friendship, desire, guilt, and love.
- Publisher
- National Geographic Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780307276780
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1978)
Other awarded books from Mary Gordon
- The Company of Women (2000)0 wins · 4 score
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