**"Exquisitely crafted . . . Witty, nuanced and ultimately moving." βMaureen Corrigan, *Fresh Air*** **Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, the *San Francisco Chronicle,* *Salon,* and *The Millions,* and a Best Fiction Book of the Year by the *Christian Science Monitor* Β· Finalist for the Kirku
Florence Gordon
β Scribed by Morton, Brian
- Book ID
- 108249224
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780544309869
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β¦ Synopsis
A wise and entertaining novel about a woman who has lived life on her own terms for seventy-five defiant and determined years, only to find herself suddenly thrust to the center of her family's various catastrophes
Meet Florence Gordon: blunt, brilliant, cantankerous and passionate, feminist icon to young women, invisible and underappreciated by most everyone else. At seventy-five, Florence has earned her right to set down the burdens of family and work and shape her legacy at long last. But just as she is beginning to write her long-deferred memoir, her son Daniel returns to New York from Seattle with his wife and daughter, and they embroil Florence in their dramas, clouding the clarity of her days with the frustrations of middle-age and the confusions of youth. And then there is her left foot, which is starting to drag.
With searing wit, sophisticated intelligence, and a tender respect for humanity in all its flaws, Brian Morton introduces a constellation of...
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**"Exquisitely crafted . . . Witty, nuanced and ultimately moving." βMaureen Corrigan,_Fresh Air_ ** **Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, the _San Francisco Chronicle,_ _Salon,_ and _The Millions,_ and a Best Fiction Book of the Year by the _Christian Science Monitor_ Β· Finalist for the Kirku