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One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self

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One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self

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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 publishedthe previous year.

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"Now back in print after its initial publication in 1977 and with a new introduction by the author, [this book] is a landmark work of new journalism, profiling American Communist Party members and fellow travelers as they joined the Party, lived within its orbit, and left in disillusionment and disappointment as Stalin's crimes became public"--Bac

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Seven seminal essays addressing loneliness, friendship and feminism, written in Gornick's inimitable voice, this collection has never been published in Australia.

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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.

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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.

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Eleven classic essays that explore the meaning of love and marriage as literary themes in the twentieth century

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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.