Vivian Gornick
Autor(a) de Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
About the Author
Vivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in The Best American Essays 2014. Her works include the memoirs Fierce Attachments and The Odd Woman and the City and the classic text on writing The Situation and the mostrar mais Story. mostrar menos
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Associated Works
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage (2002) — Contribuinte — 690 cópias
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (1998) — Contribuinte — 298 cópias
The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away (2005) — Contribuinte — 203 cópias
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Contribuinte — 186 cópias
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contribuinte — 121 cópias
Written by Herself, Volume II: Women's Memoirs from Britain, Africa, Asia, and the United States (1992) — Contribuinte — 87 cópias
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuinte — 83 cópias
Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find There (A Beacon Anthology) (1999) — Contribuinte — 62 cópias
How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships (2004) — Contribuinte — 58 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1935-06-14
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Educação
- City College of New York
New York University - Ocupação
- essayist
memoirist
critic
journalist - Organizações
- Village Voice
The New School
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 23
- Also by
- 18
- Membros
- 2,645
- Popularidade
- #9,708
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 64
- ISBNs
- 131
- Idiomas
- 9
- Favorito
- 2
If this little book is flawed, and I suspect it is, it is because Vivian Gornick's premise that character development of the narrator/author that emerges from the distinction between situation and story is what lifts the writing towards greatness does not seem to apply to this extended essay. I kept looking (in vain) for her. Nevertheless, I like her lucid, airy style and look forward to opening up my next read which is again by Vivian Gornick, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader . Maybe then I'll re-read it?… (mais)