Selected Novels Volume Two
The Lost Mother and A Dangerous Woman
Published on 29. May 2018
775 pages
978-1-5040-5410-2 (ISBN)
Description
Two unforgettable novels from the author of the
New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection,
Songs in Ordinary Time, "a writer to reckon with" (
The Washington Post).
The highly acclaimed novelist Mary McGarry Morris has been hailed as "a credible heir to Carson McCullers... a wise, unsentimental portraitist of the lonely, the damned, the desperate and the incomplete" ( The New York Times Book Review) as well as "a cross between Elizabeth Gaskell and David Lynch" ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune). In the two powerful novels collected here, Morris offers compassionate accounts of damaged and desperate people struggling to survive.
The Lost Mother: Told from the perspective of twelve-year-old Thomas, The Lost Mother follows a shattered family in rural Vermont during the Great Depression. Deserted by their mother, Thomas and his eight-year-old sister, Margaret, are reduced to living in a tent with their father, Henry. When a wealthy neighbor begins to woo the children as companions for her strange, housebound son, Henry weighs an unexpected proposition, the consequences of which may cost him everything.
"A perfectly lovely book about perfectly awful things." - The Washington Post
"The author paints a brutal landscape and authentic characters with delicacy and precision." - Publishers Weekly
A Dangerous Woman:
Named one of the five best novels of the year by Time magazine
Emotionally unstable Martha Hogan is an outcast in her small Vermont town. She stares; she has violent crushes on people; and perhaps most unsettling, she cannot stop telling the truth. After a traumatic experience in her teens, the thirty-two-year-old now craves love and companionship. But her relentless honesty makes her painfully vulnerable to those around her, including her wealthy aunt and begrudging guardian, and a seductive man who preys on her desires. Bitter and distrusting, Martha is slowly propelled into a desperate attempt to gain control over her life.
"Thrilling and deeply affecting." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"A powerful, disconcerting, and heartbreaking story of a woman who is most dangerous to herself." - Library Journal
The highly acclaimed novelist Mary McGarry Morris has been hailed as "a credible heir to Carson McCullers... a wise, unsentimental portraitist of the lonely, the damned, the desperate and the incomplete" ( The New York Times Book Review) as well as "a cross between Elizabeth Gaskell and David Lynch" ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune). In the two powerful novels collected here, Morris offers compassionate accounts of damaged and desperate people struggling to survive.
The Lost Mother: Told from the perspective of twelve-year-old Thomas, The Lost Mother follows a shattered family in rural Vermont during the Great Depression. Deserted by their mother, Thomas and his eight-year-old sister, Margaret, are reduced to living in a tent with their father, Henry. When a wealthy neighbor begins to woo the children as companions for her strange, housebound son, Henry weighs an unexpected proposition, the consequences of which may cost him everything.
"A perfectly lovely book about perfectly awful things." - The Washington Post
"The author paints a brutal landscape and authentic characters with delicacy and precision." - Publishers Weekly
A Dangerous Woman:
Named one of the five best novels of the year by Time magazine
Emotionally unstable Martha Hogan is an outcast in her small Vermont town. She stares; she has violent crushes on people; and perhaps most unsettling, she cannot stop telling the truth. After a traumatic experience in her teens, the thirty-two-year-old now craves love and companionship. But her relentless honesty makes her painfully vulnerable to those around her, including her wealthy aunt and begrudging guardian, and a seductive man who preys on her desires. Bitter and distrusting, Martha is slowly propelled into a desperate attempt to gain control over her life.
"Thrilling and deeply affecting." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"A powerful, disconcerting, and heartbreaking story of a woman who is most dangerous to herself." - Library Journal
More details
Person
Mary McGarry Morris grew up in Vermont and now lives on the North Shore in Massachusetts. Her first novel,
Vanished, was published in 1988 and was nominated for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
A Dangerous Woman (1991) was chosen by
Time magazine as one of the "Five Best Novels of the Year" and was made into a motion picture starring Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, and Gabriel Byrne.
Songs in Ordinary Time (1995) was an Oprah's Book Club selection, which propelled it to the top of the
New York Times bestseller list for many weeks, and it was adapted for a TV movie starring Sissy Spacek and Beau Bridges. Morris's other highly acclaimed works include the novels
Fiona Range (2000),
A Hole in the Universe (2004),
The Lost Mother (2005),
The Last Secret (2009), and
Light from a Distant Star (2011), as well as the play
MTL: The Insanity File.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Praise for Mary McGarry Morris
- Title Page
- Contents
- The Lost Mother
- Title Page
- Dedication
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- A Dangerous Woman
- Title Page
- Dedication
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-one
- Twenty-two
- Twenty-three
- Twenty-four
- About the Author
- Copyright
