Books written by Gail Godwin
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Publishing: A Writer’s Memoir
A three-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times best-selling author reflects on her writing experiences with such teachers as Kurt Vonnegut and Robert Coover, mapping out the publishing industry over the last 50 years during a ...
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Flora
Gail Godwin brings grace, honesty, and enormous intelligence to every page' Ann Patchett Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's dilapidated family home while her father is doing secret war work ...
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Father Melancholy's Daughter
The novels of Gail Godwin are contemporary classics--evocative, powerfully affecting, beautifully crafted fiction alive with endearing, unforgettable characters.
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Evensong: A Novel
Now with Evensong, she again translates our everyday existence into soul-touching truths as she brings to brilliantly realized life the people of a small Smoky Mountain town--and a woman whose world is indelibly altered by them.
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Father Melancholy's Daughter
Psykologisk roman om en kvindes udvikling efter at hun er vokset op alene med sin far, som var præst
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The Finishing School: A Novel
But the lessons of the finishing school have their dark side as well, as Justin learns how deep friendship can be shattered by shocking, unforgivable betrayal. NOTE: This edition does not include images.
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Flora: A Novel
This darkly beautiful novel about a child and a caretaker in isolation evokes shades of The Turn of the Screw and also harks back to Godwin's memorable novel of growing up The Finishing School.
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Dream Children: Stories
" --The Christian Science Monitor "The work of a writer who is moving confidently to the forefront of contemporary American fiction." --The Miami Herald "The stories are all. . . detailed with expertise and frosted with elegance.
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Flora: A Novel
Isolated in a decaying family home while her father performs secret work at the end of World War II, ten-year-old Helen, grieving the losses of her mother and grandmother, bonds with her sensitive young aunt while desperately clinging to ...
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Queen of the Underworld
In 1959, as the first wave of Cuban exiles arrive in the United States, Emma Gant, finally free of her stifling family and bullying stepfather, embarks on a career as a reporter for The Miami Star and begins to thrive in the sultry world of ...
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Grief Cottage: A Novel
The power and beauty of this artful novel wash over the reader like the waves on a South Carolina beach.
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The Perfectionists: A Novel
“Real artistry . . . A finely crafted and absorbing novel.”—Los Angeles TimesDane is an American magazine journalist, and John, a British psychotherapist. He says he knows everything about her,...
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Heart: A Natural History of the Heart-Filled Life
In this remarkable book, critically acclaimed author Gail Godwin takes us on a breathtaking journey that spans the history of human civilization, combining myth, art and religion to understand how humans have conceived of the heart through ...
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Evenings at Five
Every evening at five o'clock, Christina and Rudy stopped work and began the ritual commonly known as Happy Hour. Rudy mixed Christina's drink with loving precision, the cavalier slosh of...
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Evenings at Five: A Novel and Five Stories
Seven months after the unexpected death of her husband, Rudy, Christina reflects on their nearly thirty years of life together, the vital bond between them, and her grief, from the perspective of their long-time ritual of getting together ...
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Mr. Bedford and the Muses
Mr. Bedford and the Muses
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Glass People: A Novel
I have been crying out for contemporary woman's new consciousness to express or define itself in a good novel....Here it is: Glass People by Gail Godwin." --Anatole Broyard The New York Times