Vivian Gornick, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $20 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-16733-2
With her essays regularly appearing in high-profile periodicals, anthologies and partisan-attracting books like Fierce Attachments
and The End of the Novel of Love, Gornick is one of a handful of nonfiction prose stylists whose work is instantly...
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Vivian Gornick, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $17 (135p) ISBN 978-0-374-29954-5
Without the inimitable Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the voice of 19th-century feminists would have been much less forceful. Essayist and memoirist Gornick (Approaching Eye Level
) reflects on Stanton's (1815–1902) thought regarding the question
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Vivian Gornick, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15.95 (203p) ISBN 978-0-374-15485-1
This supple, energized memoir chronicles Gornick's volatile relationship with her mother and her unsuccessful battle to reject a legacy of hatred, depression, humiliation and self-pity. An able storyteller with a keen ear for dialogue, Gornick (Essay
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Vivian Gornick, Author Simon & Schuster $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-65757-4
This supple, energized memoir chronicles Gornick's (Essays in Feminism) explosive relationship with her mother and her unsuccessful battle to reject a legacy of hatred, depression and humiliation. Gornick is ""an able storyteller with a keen ear for
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Vivian Gornick, Author Beacon Press (MA) $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7090-1
Apparently Gornick writes only when she has something to say (Fierce Attachments was published in 1988), with the result that readers may not be conversant with her output of honed observations and unflinching conclusions. She is a New Yorker...
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Vivian Gornick, Author Beacon Press (MA) $20 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8070-6222-7
When Nietzsche announced that God was dead, he meant, in part, that people could no longer look to the deity for the meaning of life. The same, says Gornick, now holds true of love as a literary metaphor. The novel in which man and woman meet, have...
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Vivian Gornick. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $22 (190p) ISBN 978-0-3742-9860-9
Gornick, a discerning and sharp-tongued literary critic (The Men in My Life), writes of her lifelong love affair with her native New York City. Gornick, who was born in the Bronx, introduces her prickly friend Leonard, a perpetually disgruntled gay...
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Vivian Gornick. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (176p) ISBN 978-0-374-28215-8
In this brief and characteristically pithy collection, critic and memoirist Gornick (The Odd Woman and the City) considers how her responses to particular books have changed over time. What interests her is not discovering that she’d misremembered...
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Vivian Gornick. Verso, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-78873-977-1
This parade of greatest hits from Gornick (Unfinished Business) spans the essayist’s career as a literary and cultural critic. The pieces, organized from newest to oldest, cover 40 years and are organized into four sections: literature, culture, “Two
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Edited by Vivian Gornick. Mariner, $18.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-328884-3
In this solid entry in the long-running anthology series, editor Gornick (Taking a Long Look) brings together pieces that share the “strong, clear sound of a narrating voice that, in and of itself, is the organizing principle behind the essay.”...
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