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In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called the principal crux of female despair: the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of urban peasants, Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's...

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A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Vivian Gornick.Vivian Gornick, renowned essayist and celebrated feminist writer, selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.

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In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called the principal crux of female despair: the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of urban peasants, Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's...

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Die Grande Dame der amerikanischen Essayistik empfiehlt: Lasst Bücher in euer Leben - und lest sie immer wieder!Für die preisgekrönte Journalistin Vivian Gornick sind Bücher Lebensbegleiter. In neun Essays, die sich zwischen scharfsinniger Literaturkritik und persönlichen Erinnerungen bewegen, denkt sie über die Bedeutung des Lesens - und Wieder-Lesens - nach. Warum sprechen Bücher in verschiedenen Lebensphasen so unterschiedlich zu uns? Und w...

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 experience. Drawing writing from the course of her career, All That is Given illuminates one of the driving themes behind Gornick?s work: that the painful process of understanding one's self is what binds us to the larger world. In these essay...

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