· Brian Morton David Kumin. At the beginning of “ Florence Gordon,” Brian Morton ’s hilarious and addictive novel, the titular character — a year-old feminist who has suddenly achieved Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. BRIAN MORTON is the author of four previous novels, including Starting Out in the Evening, which was a Salon favorite book of the year and was made into an acclaimed feature film, and A Window Across the River, which was a Book Club selection on the Today show. He is the director of the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence and teaches at New York University and the Bennington Writing Seminars/5. Most of all, Florence Gordon shows how passion - of one type or the other - shapes a heart. Emily Gould, author of Friendship Perceptive isn't a strong enough word to describe Brian Morton's insight into family dynamics; psychic is more like it And somehow he .
Florence Gordon. by. Brian Morton. · Rating details · 3, ratings · reviews. 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. Brian Morton David Kumin. At the beginning of "Florence Gordon," Brian Morton's hilarious and addictive novel, the titular character — a year-old feminist who has suddenly achieved. Florence Gordon; Brian Morton. Houghton, Mifflin Harcourt - Florence Gordon is a blunt, smart, grumpy, senior citizen and life-long feminist. She's divorced from Saul, but hasn't gotten him out of her life % as he always seems to need a favor from her now and then. She's a woman who beats to her own drummer, has never tried to.
Brian Morton's Florence Gordon is about the relationship between a tough, year-old feminist icon and her granddaughter. It's self-aware, funny and full of characters that are entirely believable. Florence Gordon: Author: Brian Morton: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects. “Florence Gordon is one of those extraordinary novels that clarifies its readers' sense of things, rather than cozying up to our conventional pieties. Morton's ending is straight out of a Chekov story: It's up in the air and brave; a closing vision of a life in all its messy contradictions, just limping down the street.”.
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