Item #003842 Good Boys and Dead Girls and Other Essays. Mary Gordon.

Good Boys and Dead Girls and Other Essays

New York: Viking, 1991. Hardcover. x, 253 p.; 22 cm. Dark blue cloth spine with copper stamped spine title and beige paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. First edition. Remainder mark on lower page edges. In the title essay, Gordon examines novels by Dreiser, Faulkners, and Updike, where she finds "an abundance of female corpses and a certain heroism attributed to the men responsible; she finds an ideology which suggests that men are active, eager, gold creasures--except when women slow them down."--dust jacket. Remainder mark on lower page edges; otherwise in Fine/Fine Condition: clean and bright. Fine / fine. Item #003842
ISBN: 0670825670

Price: $9.95