Vivian Gornick - Böcker

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Den bästa memoar som skrivits de senaste 50 åren, enligt kritiker i New York Times. ”Svidande ärlig och burdus, rolig och förkrossande.” Borås tidning ”I sin memoar skildrar hon det snåriga fö...

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Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornicks celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism, ...

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1987 skrev Vivian Gornick den bländande memoaren Starka band . Då var hon kring femtio. När hon skriver den andra delen av sitt liv har det hunnit bli 2015, världen är en helt annan, och Vivian Gornick själv är ...

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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 ...

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Every night when I turn the lights out in my sixteenth-floor living room before I go to bed, I experience a shock of pleasure as I see the banks of lighted windows rising to the sky, crowding round me, and feel myself embraced by the anonymous ing...

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Den bästa memoar som skrivits de senaste 50 åren, enligt kritiker i New York Times. ”Svidande ärlig och burdus, rolig och förkrossande.” Borås tidning ”I sin memoar skildrar hon det snåriga fö...

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Den bästa memoar som skrivits de senaste 50 åren, enligt kritiker i New York Times. Jag har inget gott förhållande till min mor, och när våra liv hopar sig över oss tycks det ofta försämras ytterligare. Vi är fångna i en trång sfär av intensiv och...

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A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography 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...

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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. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations a...

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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 d...

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In her introduction to this years 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. Pr...

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A collection of the years best essays, selected by award-winning writer Vivian Gornick.Vivian Gornick, renowned essayist and celebrated feminist writer, selectstwenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form publishedth...

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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 ...

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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 G...

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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vibrant, deeply human portrait of a woman dedicated to fierce protest against the tyranny of institutions over individuals, by the celebrated author Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who too...

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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vibrant, deeply human portrait of a woman dedicated to fierce protest against the tyranny of institutions over individuals, by the celebrated authorEmma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who...

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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 Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation ...

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A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography 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...

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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 ...

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Seminal essays on loneliness, living in New York, friendship, feminism, and writing from nonfiction master Vivian Gornick Vivian Gornick's Approaching Eye Level is a brave collection of personal essays that finds a quintessentially contemporary wo...

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From an acclaimed feminist writer, essays on "e;loneliness . . . [the] limitations on friendship and intimacy, [honoring] the process of becoming oneself"e; (Mary Hawthorne, The New York Times Book Review).Seminal essays on loneliness, liv...

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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...

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Vivian Gornick's Fierce Attachments-hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author's "e;mesmerizing, thrilling"e; truths within its pages-has been selected by the publication's book critics as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past ...

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A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of LoveAll narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. ...

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A vicious and brilliant satire of human vanity from the author of the classic bestseller The Group Long out of print, Mary McCarthy's second novel is a bitingly funny satire set in the early years of the Cold War about a group of writers, editors,...

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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 Victor...

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"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, ...

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"e;Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class."e; So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, div...

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