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03341cam a2200553 a 4500 001 15B86D0E2AF211DE9756E306A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20210311022902 008 950925s1996 nyu 000 0aeng 010 $a 95025690 020 $a 9780679428855 (acid-free paper) 020 $a 0679428852 (acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)33276701 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d OCLCG $d NIALS $d BTN $d DIV $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3557.O669 $b Z467 1996 100 1 $a Gordon, Mary, $d 1949- 245 1 $a The shadow man / $c Mary Gordon. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b Random House, $c c1996. 300 $a xxiv, 274 p. ; $c 21 cm. 530 $a Also issued online. 520 1 $a ""My father died when I was seven years old. I've always thought that was the most important thing anyone could know about me." The beloved, lost father - the Shadow Man: in this searing memoir, one of America's finest writers discovers the truth about the man whose romantic image defined her life." "But who was David Gordon really? In Mary Gordon's memories of him, he was an erudite and charming man: an intellectual, a writer and publisher, a Harvard dropout and Jazz Age bohemian. But at midlife she began to question these loving memories and to go in search of the man whose presence - and absence - haunted her life. Unburying startling truths, Gordon discovers both a devoted, inventive, and loving father and a person desperate to cover up the underside of the immigrant's encounter with the American dream. As Gordon tracks her father - in the archives, in libraries, in the middle of America - she uncovers lies, despair, madness: a man who lied about many things, including his date and place of birth, his native language, his family, his education. A Jew born in the last years of the nineteenth century, he became a convert to Catholicism and to right-wing politics, a literary critic who was also a pornographer, and a vicious anti-Semite. As a realistic portrait of her father emerges, Mary Gordon reevaluates herself in the light of these painful discoveries about her heritage and past."--BOOK JACKET. 600 10 $a Gordon, Mary, $d 1949- $x Family. 650 0 $a Novelists, American $y 20th century $x Family relationships. 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0412/95025690.html 941 $a 20 952 $l UPAX334 $d 20230104035747.0 952 $l N2AX314 $d 20210728015019.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722012248.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926092507.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720023148.0 952 $l NKPD993 $d 20180718033458.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180106031105.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160813072826.0 952 $l UXAX826 $d 20150507032415.0 952 $l TJPC492 $d 20150228022659.0 952 $l VKPE334 $d 20100405133409.0 952 $l JLPF081 $d 20090708133753.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OJPC027 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l O3AX572 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l EKPC715 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l DAPG173 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l CBPF522 $m B G662 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l BGPE251 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=15B86D0E2AF211DE9756E306A8D7520A 994 $a 01 $b DIVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search