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Vivian Gornick Fierce Attachments (Paperback) FSG Classics
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- Book Title
- Fierce Attachments : a Memoir
- Publication Name
- Fierce Attachments
- Title
- Fierce Attachments
- Subtitle
- A Memoir
- Contributor
- Jonathan Lethem (Introduction by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0374529965
- EAN
- 9780374529963
- ISBN
- 9780374529963
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
- Topic
- Women Authors, Personal Memoirs, General, Parenting / Motherhood
- Release Date
- 01/09/2005
- Release Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 7.8 Oz
- Series
- FSG Classics
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Vivian Gornick's Fierce Attachments --hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author's "mesmerizing, thrilling" truths within its pages--has been selected by the publication's book critics as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years. 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. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband. Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. These women with their opposing models of femininity continue, well into adulthood, to affect Gornick's struggle to find herself in love and in work. As Gornick walks with her aged mother through the streets of New York, arguing and remembering the past, each wins the reader's admiration: the caustic and clear-thinking daughter, for her courage and tenacity in really talking to her mother about the most basic issues of their lives, and the still powerful and intuitively-wise old woman, who again and again proves herself her daughter's mother. Unsparing, deeply courageous, Fierce Attachments is one of the most remarkable documents of family feeling that has been written, a classic that helped start the memoir boom and remains one of the most moving examples of the genre. " Gornick] stares unflinchingly at all that is hidden, difficult, strange, unresolvable in herself and others--at loneliness, sexual malice and the devouring, claustral closeness of mothers and daughters... Fierce Attachments is] a portrait of the artist as she finds a language--original, allergic to euphemism and therapeutic banalities--worthy of the women that raised her."-- The New York Times
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374529965
ISBN-13
9780374529963
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46469414
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fierce Attachments : a Memoir
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, Personal Memoirs, General, Parenting / Motherhood
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hq755.85.G67 20005
Reviews
Searingly intimate and courageous... Gornick's writing is brilliant, clean, and colorful, simultaneously evoking the inner and outer spaces she is trying to illuminate., "There's a clarity to this memoir that's so brilliant it's unsettling; Gornick finds a measure of freedom in her writing and her feminist activism, but even then, she and her mother can never let each other go." -- Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review "There are only so many words in the dictionary with which to say how very good this book is. Fierce Attachments deserves them all." -- The Washington Post Book World "Gornick is a distinctive and startling artist--the true subject of this brilliant book." -- The Nation "Searingly intimate and courageous... Gornick's writing is brilliant, clean, and colorful, simultaneously evoking the inner and outer spaces she is trying to illuminate." -- Mother Jones "Inspiring... Gornick carves, in careful, electrifying words, each scar and glory of her unconventional life." -- Guardian Book Supplement, Inspiring... Gornick carves, in careful, electrifying words, each scar and glory of her unconventional life., There are only so many words in the dictionary with which to say how very good this book is. Fierce Attachments deserves them all., "There are only so many words in the dictionary with which to say how very good this book is. Fierce Attachments deserves them all." -- The Washington Post Book World "Gornick is a distinctive and startling artist--the true subject of this brilliant book." -- The Nation "Searingly intimate and courageous... Gornick's writing is brilliant, clean, and colorful, simultaneously evoking the inner and outer spaces she is trying to illuminate." -- Mother Jones "Inspiring... Gornick carves, in careful, electrifying words, each scar and glory of her unconventional life." -- Guardian Book Supplement
Copyright Date
2005
Lccn
2005-048836
Dewey Decimal
974.7/1043/092
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Fsg Classics Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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