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Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Vivian Gornick's writing has always explored the hard truths of existence: the nature of human loneliness, and the struggle to love, work, and connect. In these seven seminal essays Gornick chronicles the New York streets that energise her, and looks back on the dangerously charged atmosphere of the Cat ...Show more
Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Vivian Gornick's relationship with her mother is difficult. At the age of forty-five, she regularly meets her mother for strolls along the streets of Manhattan. Occasionally they'll hit a pleasant stride - fondly recalling a shared nostalgia or chuckling over a mutual disgust - but most often their walk ...Show more
Fierce Attachments : A memoir by Vivian Gornick
$29.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: FSG Classics
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking boo ...Show more
Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one’s self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick’s essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal ex ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick; Robert Atwan
$37.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American Ser.
In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience." Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many wr ...Show more
The Men in My Life by Vivian Gornick
$32.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Boston Review Books
Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled the theme of love and marriage in her last collection of essays, The End of the Novel of Love, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. In this new collection, she turns her attention to another large theme in literature: the struggle for the semb ...Show more
The Odd Woman and the City - A Memoir by Vivian Gornick
$22.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Engaging with a city that challenges, inspires, and sometimes thwarts a single woman,The Odd Woman and the Cityis a deeply moving ode to Gotham, and to the friendships and encounters that invigorate and ground a life in the city. Vivian Gornick loves to walk-to absorb the drama, humor, and humanity of ...Show more
The Odd Woman and the City - A Memoir by Vivian Gornick
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography A contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spirit of Fierce Attachments A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance en ...Show more
The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class." So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to ...Show more
The Situation and the Story : The art of personal narrative by Vivian Gornick
$30.00 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Taking readers on a tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James B ...Show more
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader by Vivian Gornick
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
I sometimes think I was born reading ... I can't remember the time when I didn't have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me. A celebration of the delights of rereading from the acclaimed author of The Odd Woman and the City In nine essays that meld criticism and memoir, Gornick retur ...Show more
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