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Vivian Gornick The Odd Woman and the City (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Odd Woman and the City : a Memoir
- Publication Name
- The Odd Woman and the City
- Title
- The Odd Woman and the City
- Subtitle
- A Memoir
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780374536152
- ISBN
- 9780374536152
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
- Topic
- Love & Romance, Friendship, Personal Memoirs, General, Literary, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Urban
- Release Date
- 17/05/2016
- Release Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 7.6in
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 5.3 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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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 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, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same. Running steadily through the book is Vivian Gornick's exchange of more than twenty years with Leonard, a gay man who is sophisticated about his own unhappiness, whose friendship has "shed more light on the mysterious nature of ordinary human relations than has any other intimacy" she has known. The exchange between Gornick and Leonard acts as a Greek chorus to the main action of the narrator's continual engagement on the street with grocers, derelicts, and doormen; people on the bus, cross-dressers on the corner, and acquaintances by the handful. In Leonard she sees herself reflected plain; out on the street she makes sense of what she sees. Written as a narrative collage that includes meditative pieces on the making of a modern feminist, the role of the flaneur in urban literature, and the evolution of friendship over the past two centuries, The Odd Woman and the City beautifully bookends Gornick's acclaimed Fierce Attachments , in which we first encountered her rich relationship with the ultimate metropolis.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374536155
ISBN-13
9780374536152
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217036162
Product Key Features
Book Title
Odd Woman and the City : a Memoir
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Love & Romance, Friendship, Personal Memoirs, General, Literary, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.6in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
5.3 Oz
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Reviews
Praise for Vivian Gornick"One of the most vital and indispensable essayists of our cultural moment." - Phillip Lopate "Vivian Gornick's prose is so penetrating that reading it can be almost painful." - Susie Linfield, Los Angeles Times "Reading [Gornick] is a thrilling, invigorating, challenging experience." - Barbara Fisher, The Boston Sunday Globe, "[F]unny and elegiac and truth-dealing. . . . It's a slim book with big echoes. . . . What puts The Odd Woman and the City across, however, is how deeply Ms. Gornick gets into the fat of feeling. She is as good a writer about friendship as we have." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "[An] elusive and stirring memoir" --David Ulin, Los Angeles Times "[Vivian Gornick is] a kind of ambassador for those most contested, conflicted of American genres, the personal essay and the memoir." --Emily Stokes, The New York Times Book Review "The best books, like the best friends and their best emails, like the most intimate and comforting conversations, make us feel understood. They make us feel like home is home. The Odd Woman and the City can be read as a guidebook for how to exist." --Katherine Taylor, Los Angeles Times Review of Books "Gornick's most ambitious attempt yet at the nonromance plot . . . richly felt." --Laura Marsh, The New Republic "A series of sharply observed vignettes." -- The New Yorker "In an age of often pointless confessional writing, Gornick remains a master of purposeful personal narrative." --Isabella Biedenharn, Entertainment Weekly "One of the most vital and indispensable essayists of our cultural moment." -- Phillip Lopate "Reading [Gornick] is a thrilling, invigorating, challenging experience." --Barbara Fisher, The Boston Sunday Globe "Vivian Gornick . . . has produced a new volume in the stubbornly candid, piercingly intelligent voice that informed her literary essays and criticism. . . . a ferocious intellectual inquisitiveness and a lifetime affair with a city where Gornick's aliveness, her alertness are rewarded daily." --Misha Berson, The Seattle Times "Gornick explores the ebb and flow of relationships with a blunt yet emotionally deft hand." --Jenn Fields, The Denver Post "[A] marvelous new memoir . . . Yes, we fall in love with Vivian Gornick - her chutzpah and fine mind, her wit, perseverance and resolve." -- The Buffalo News
Dewey Decimal
818/.5403
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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