Jaimy Gordon





Jaimy Gordon

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Jaimy Gordon's third novel, Bogeywoman was on the Los Angeles Times list of Best Books for 2000. Her second novel, She Drove Without Stopping, brought her an Academy-Institute Award for her fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Gordon's short story, "A Night's Work," which shares a number of characters with Lord of Misrule, appeared in Best American Short Stories 1995. She is also the author of a novella, Circumspections from an Equestrian Statue, and the fantasy classic novel Shamp of the City-Solo. Gordon teaches at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and in the Prague Summer Program for Writers.


Average rating: 3.29 · 1,309 ratings · 414 reviews · 12 distinct works
Lord of Misrule
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 1,208 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions
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Bogeywoman
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions
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She Drove Without Stopping
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions
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Shamp of the City-Solo
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings5 editions
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Circumspections from an Equ...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions
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The Bend, The Lip, The Kid:...
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L'ultimo Giorno Di Gloria
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Private T. Pigeon's Tale
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Bogeywoman
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Hermine: An Animal Life
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4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1984
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“He was insane, he thought people were trying to destroy him, to suck out his guts, but, she noted, in the rare event that someone was trying to destroy you, to suck out your guts, insanity was a goodly metaphysics.”
Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule

“The Mahdi rolls along the path to the race track as red, broad and shining as a John Deere tractor....”
Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule

“this ain't the 4-H rodeo at the Pocahontas County Fair.... this is horse racing”
Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule



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