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Collection: Adult Fiction
Call Number: F
Author: Gordon, Mary
Title: Payback
Summary, etc. note: "Unbeknownst to her many fans, Quin Archer, the revenge-loving queen of the reality-TV show "Payback," was once an angry teen named Heidi--and her true story may be known only to Agnes, who was her art teacher at a private New England girls' school in the 1970s. Then a young woman herself, Agnes saw a spark of originality in the brooding Heidi. But when she suggests Heidi visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the girl returns with a disastrous account of having been picked up at the museum by an older man. Agnes's stunned, victim-blaming response will haunt both women for decades. Gordon narrates this tale of #metoo misunderstanding, from a time before there was language to contain it, with a sharp sense of life's changing tempo, carrying us through Heidi's disappearance and reinvention as Quin, and Agnes's escape into career and family in Italy--until, inevitably, they meet again. A remarkable book about the precise weight of our words and deeds, from a writer whose moral vision is deeply rewarding in its subtlety"--

International Standard Book Number: 9781524749224
: (ebk)
: (hardcover)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9781524749231
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Classification number: PS3557.O669
Item number: P39 2020
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 813/.54
Dates associated with a name: 1949-
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Mary Gordon.
Edition statement: First Edition
Place of publication: New York ,NY
Name of publisher: Pantheon Books,division of Penguin Random house LLC
Date of publication: 2020
Projected publication date: 2009
: New York :
: Pantheon Books,
: [2020]
Extent: 338 pages
: rdacontent
: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: n
: rdacarrier
: volume
: nc
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: B & T 9/11/2020
Purchase price: 27.95
Subject: Moral Vision
Subject: Women
Main entry heading: Gordon, Mary,
Place, publisher, and date of publication: New York : Pantheon Books, 2020.
Display text: Online version:
Title: Payback
Record control number: (DLC) 2020000080
International Standard Book Number: 9781524749231
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: 1 shelf copy
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: xk12 2020-01-10
: xk12 2020-01-10 (telework) to CIP

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