Vivian Gornick: 10 books

Book cover of Fierce Attachments
by Vivian Gornick
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005

Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments—hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author’s “mesmerizing, thrilling” truths within its pages—has been selected by the publication’s book critics as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years. In this deeply etched and haunting...
Book cover of The Men in My Life
by Vivian Gornick
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008

Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate relationship between emotional damage and great literature. Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled...
Book cover of The Solitude of Self

The Solitude of Self

Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton

by Vivian Gornick
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006

Elizabeth Cady Stanton—along with her comrade-in-arms, Susan B. Anthony—was one of the most important leaders of the movement to gain American women the vote. But, as Vivian Gornick argues in this passionate, vivid biographical essay, Stanton is also the greatest feminist thinker of the nineteenth...
Book cover of The Odd Woman and the City
by Vivian Gornick
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015

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 encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that...
Book cover of Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business

Notes of a Chronic Re-reader

by Vivian Gornick
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020

One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life 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. Unfinished Business: Notes of a...
Book cover of The Romance of American Communism
by Vivian Gornick
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020

Writer and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life “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,...
Book cover of Apegos Feroces
by Vivian Gornick
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2017

Gornick, una mujer madura, camina con su madre, ya anciana, por las calles de Manhattan, y en el transcurso de esos paseos llenos de reproches, de recuerdos y complicidades, va desgranando el relato de la lucha de una hija por encontrar su propio lugar en el mundo. Desde muy temprano, Gornick se ve...
Book cover of The Situation and the Story

The Situation and the Story

The Art of Personal Narrative

by Vivian Gornick
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2002

A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who...
Book cover of La mujer singular y la ciudad
by Vivian Gornick
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 21, 2018

Continuación natural de «Apegos feroces», «La mujer singular y la ciudad» es un mapa fascinante y emotivo de los ritmos, los encuentros fortuitos y las amistades siempre cambiantes que conforman la vida en la ciudad, en este caso Nueva York. Mientras pasea por las calles de Manhattan, de nuevo...
Book cover of After Montaigne

After Montaigne

Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays

by Chris Arthur, Barrie Jean Borich, Steven Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays...
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