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A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceOne of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her lifeI 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 Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have...

Stadtluft macht Frauen frei!Wir finden zu uns, indem wir anderen begegnen. Vivian Gornick ist eine Suchende, und nichts beruhigt ihr fragendes Herz mehr als ein Fußmarsch durch die schwindelerregenden Straßenschluchten New Yorks. Auf der Suche ist sie nach sich selbst, nach der Frau, die sie sein möchte. Und so sind die alltäglichen Begegnungen ihr Elixier: Aus den Gesprächen auf der Straße erfährt sie von den Schicksalen der anderen und lernt...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceOne of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her lifeI 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 Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have...

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, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to a larger human...

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Vivian Gornick's The End of the Novel of Love explores the meaning of love and marriage as literary themes in the twentieth century.In The End of the Novel of Love, an acclaimed and provocative collection of criticism, Gornick applies the same intelligence, honesty, and insight that define her memoirs to an analysis of love and marriage as literary themes in the twentieth cen...

Seminal essays on loneliness, living in New York, friendship, feminism, and writing from nonfiction master Vivian GornickVivian Gornick's Approaching Eye Level is a brave collection of personal essays that finds a quintessentially contemporary woman (urban, single, feminist) trying to observe herself and the world without sentiment, cynicism, or nostalgia. Whether walking along the streets of New York or teaching writing at a university, Gorni...

Vivian Gornick ist eine Entdeckung!Mütter sind anstrengend und bleiben es ein Leben lang. Schon als Kind spürt Vivian Gornick bei ihrer Mutter eine blinde Wut über deren Schicksal als Hausfrau. Begleitet von der trotzigen Behauptung, die wichtigste Rolle einer Frau sei die der Ehefrau und Mutter. Darüber, dass die Tochter Unabhängigkeit und Schriftstellerei wählt, können die beiden Frauen endlos streiten, zugleich sind sie unzertrennlich. In d...

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, AutobiographyA contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spirit of Fierce AttachmentsA 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 forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, n...

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Due donne camminano per le strade di New York. Due donne come tante: una madre e una figlia che ricordano il passato e inevitabilmente si scontrano. Poche volte, però, ci è dato di ascoltare da vicino una conversazione tanto intima, ma qui è possibile perché la figlia è Vivian Gornick e "Legami feroci" è il suo primo memoir, un libro diventato di culto e annoverato tra i più significativi del suo genere. È lei che ripercorre una vita segnata d...

First published in 1987, this is an intimate memoir about the author's relationship with her mother. Moving between the present day and her memories of growing up in the Bronx, New York, it traces Gornick's lifelong struggle for independence from her mother.

Tells the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. This title draws an intimate and insightful portrait of a woman of heroic proportions whose performance on the stage of history did what Tolstoy said a work of art should do: it made people love life more.

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 book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the prinicpal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond....

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A vibrant, deeply human portrait of a woman dedicated to fierce protest against the tyranny of institutions over individuals, by the celebrated author