--- product_id: 43153890 title: "The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father" brand: "mary gordon" price: "€ 34.30" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 6 url: https://www.desertcart.sk/products/43153890-the-shadow-man-a-daughters-search-for-her-father store_origin: SK region: Slovakia --- # The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father **Brand:** mary gordon **Price:** € 34.30 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father by mary gordon - **How much does it cost?** € 34.30 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sk](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/43153890-the-shadow-man-a-daughters-search-for-her-father) ## Best For - mary gordon enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted mary gordon brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father ## Images ![The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61YrIEFVQrL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fascinating memoir of ambivalence *by B***T on January 28, 2000* This book is very much in the same vein as Geoffrey Wolff's Duke of Deception... a man who was a failure as a person yet a loving father. A chilling portrait of the ambivalence of knowing one's imperfect parent. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A QUEST FOR IDENTITY.... *by L***W on November 7, 2010* Author Mary Gordon's father died when she was seven years old. For a long time, this fact seemed to be a defining aspect of her life. She was happy to think of him in terms of the man who loved her "more than God" and then disappeared. But thirty years later, she begins a quest to find out who her father really was.Her search takes her to libraries, archives, and her own memory, but what she learns on this journey begins to test her credulity and her view of the man. Her many discoveries included the fact that he was actually an immigrant, rather than a man born in Ohio; he was a Jew who became an anti-Semite; he was a convert to Catholicism who wrote devout Catholic poetry; he was also a publisher of pornography.In Ohio, where he grew up, she can find nobody who remembers him, or those who think they do, but have negative reactions to him. She discovers many facts that led to her realization that the man she thought was her father was a fictionalized version of a man. She has to decide what to do with this conflicting information.Even her own mother is not a reliable source of memories, as she is losing hers. She scarcely can distinguish one event from another.Throughout The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father, I felt a connection to Gordon's quest, in that we desperately need to understand who we came from in order to completely know ourselves. Those defining connections can make or break us.The first part of the story was tedious and not as interesting as the later parts. I especially enjoyed the sections that included her mother and their history together--a piece to the puzzle that completed the whole picture for me.Because I enjoy this author's work, I was curious to know more about her history. This book filled it in very well, and except for the beginning parts, portrayed a compelling family portrait. Four stars. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Digging up Daddy *by A***D on November 2, 2011* The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father sketches a passionate portrait of a deeply flawed man, a shabby pornographer with literary pretensions, a convert to Christianity who was so ashamed of his immigrant and Jewish origins that he hid his past and became a nasty anti-Semite and a writer of speeches for Joe McCarthy. In the course of investigating her father's life and of reflecting on the motives for her search, Mary Gordon also had her father's bones dug up and reburied. The intensity of her obsession with her father, a father who died when she was only seven, is terrifying--yet readily understandable. The father of her childhood, after all, was not a real human being. He was a fairytale father, an Angela Carter father, a "magic uncle," a Pied Piper strewing candy and trailing kids. In trying to find her "real" father, in trying to come to terms with the lies her father told her, Gordon confesses that "I have done things to my father. I have remembered him, researched him, investigated him, exposed him, invented him." The one thing she cannot do is exorcise him. Gordon is a spiritual sister to Sylvia Plath--Plath who lost her father when she was eight--and despite her ironies, her literary inventiveness, her distancing techniques, she cannot escape the curse of victimhood which her father's early death bequeathed her.Andre Gerard,Editor of Fathers: A Literary Anthology --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sk/products/43153890-the-shadow-man-a-daughters-search-for-her-father](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/43153890-the-shadow-man-a-daughters-search-for-her-father) --- *Product available on Desertcart Slovakia* *Store origin: SK* *Last updated: 2026-07-28*