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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 Baldwin, and Marguerite Duras.

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In deze bijtende en indrukwekkende memoir uit 1987 schetst Vivian Gornick het verhaal van haar jarenlange complexe relatie met haar moeder. Gornick groeit op in The Bronx, in een woonblok vol Joodse arbeidersgezinnen. De mannen zijn grotendeels afwezig door oorlog of werk. Tussen de vrouwen broeit het, maar er is ook veel warmte. Het boek springt soepel en sensitief heen en weer tussen Gornicks herinneringen aan haar jeugd en vroege volwassenh...

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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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the most important leaders of the movement to gain American women the vote, was also a great feminist thinker of the 19th century. Her writing and life make clear why feminism as a liberation movement has flourished here as nowhere else in the world.

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.

Todo texto narrativo debe extraer de la materia prima de la vida un relato que modele la experiencia, transforme la realidad y aporte un poco de sabiduría. En un relato o en una novela, quien narra puede no ser, y a menudo no lo es, un narrador fiable. Pero en la no ficción el lector debe tener siempre el convencimiento de que aquel que escribe dice la verdad. ¿Cómo conseguir crear un escritor convincente que cuente una historia que es necesar...

Offers powerful insight into the portrayal of romantic love by Jean Rhys, Clover Adams, Christina Stead, Willa Cather, Grace Paley, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, and others. "Gornick makes forceful and dramatic judgments. . . . She is fearless." -Elizabeth Frank, The New York Times Book Review