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Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
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
$27.00 AUD
Category: General
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
Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays
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
$38.00 AUD
Category: Essays | 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 Odd Woman and the City - A Memoir by Vivian Gornick
$32.00 AUD
Category: Biography
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 Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
"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 True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives by Diane Johnson (Preface by); Vivian Gornick (Introduction by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, who was brilliant, unconventional, and at odds with the constraints of Victorian life. "Many people have described the Famous Writer presidi ...Show more
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader by Vivian Gornick
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
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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