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  <name><![CDATA[Mary McGarry Morris]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[As the author of several novels, Mary McGarry Morris has received considerable attention from critics and readers, as well as from prestigious awards panels. Her books are noted for their depictions of mentally and emotionally impaired individuals who have difficulty coping with an inhospitable world. As New York Times Book Review contributor Alice McDermott put it, “Morris does not devise plots, but traps: steel-toothed, inescapable traps of circumstance and personality against which her characters struggle... and then fail.” Ultimately, Morris suggests that these individuals are incapable of surviving their surroundings. Her books typically conclude with violent murders, death apparently being all that is left for characters who have exhausted their other possibilities. ]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Meriden, CT</hometown>  <born_at>02/10/1943</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Songs in Ordinary Time (Oprah's Book Club)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mary McGarry Morris]]></name>
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  <published>1995</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Lost Mother]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mary McGarry Morris]]></name>
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  <published>2005</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Fiona Range]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mary McGarry Morris]]></name>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Dangerous Woman]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mary McGarry Morris]]></name>
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  <published>1991</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Last Secret: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mary McGarry Morris]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Hole in the Universe]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mary McGarry Morris]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Vanished]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mary McGarry Morris]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.92</average_rating>
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  <published>1988</published>  
  
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