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"If there was any doubt that Mary Gordon was her generation's preeminent novelist of Roman Catholic mores and manners when she published her remarkable first novel 'Final Payments', it is dispelled by her new book....Unfortunately 'The Company of Women', despite its exalted spiritual message, has numerous novelistic flaws....After reading the novel's disastrously conceived last pages, which take the form of sentimental and out-of-tone monologues..., one leaves 'The Company of Women' feeling that it is a novel of marvelous parts rather than a marvelous novel."Gordon, Mary is the author of 'Company of Women', published 1986 under ISBN 9780345483010 and ISBN 0345483014.
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