Word: gower
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FATHER MELANCHOLY'S DAUGHTER by Gail Godwin (Morrow; 404 pages; $21.95). Margaret Gower is six on the day (Sept. 13, 1972) she comes home from school to learn that her mother has abandoned her and her father Walter, the rector of St. Cuthbert's Episcopal Church in the small Virginia town of Romulus. The mother has gone away with Madelyn Farley, a college friend who spends a night with the Gowers on her way back from a summer-theater job (she is a set designer) to her home in New York City. The bereaved daughter and her father, who periodically...