Mary After All - Paperback

by Bill Gordon (Author)

In the tradition of Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked Into Doors comes a brilliant feat of literary ventriloquism, a debut novel by a male author introducing a one-of-a-kind female narrator.

Meet Mary Nolan (n?e Marelli), a tough-talking Jersey City native who comes of age during the turbulent 1970s. Adored by the small-time mafia types in her extended Italian American family-formidable but doting figures like her grandpa Louie, Tony the Horse, and Charlie Cuppacoffee-Mary grew up believing she could always count on men to protect her. But after marrying young to escape her parents, Mary finds herself sidelined by life with a philandering husband and two needy young sons, her dreams as shattered as the city around her.

Author Biography

Bill Gordon's work has appeared in the" New York Times Magazine," "Mississippi Review," "New York Press," "Christopher Street," and "Downtown." He received an MFA from Columbia University. He grew up in Jersey City and now lives in New York. "Mary After All" is his first novel.

"From the Hardcover edition."