Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick - Goodreads.
Vivian Gornick is the bestselling author of Unfinished Business along with the acclaimed memoirs Fierce Attachments and The Odd Woman and the City, a biography of Emma Goldman, and three essay collections: The Men in My Life, Approaching Eye Level, and The End of the Novel of Love, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Vivian Gornick is the bestselling author of the acclaimed memoir Fierce Attachments, a biography of Emma Goldman, and three essay collections: The Men in My Life, Approaching Eye Level, and The End of the Novel of Love, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.Her February 2020 release Unfinished Business, called “lively, personable, and sneakily poignant” by the New.
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Also by Vivian Gornick. In Search of Ali Mahmoud: An American Woman in Egypt. The Romance of American Communism. Essays in Feminism. Women in Science: 100 Journeys into the Territory. Fierce Attachments: A Memoir. Approaching Eye Level. The End of the Novel of Love. The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative.
The Odd Woman and the City integrates Gornick’s observations of city life with fascinating reflections on what it means to be a feminist woman of a certain age, a solitary apartment dweller, a friend of other solitary New Yorkers, etc. Bits of philosophy, literary criticism and autobiography alternate to good effect. Particularly if you share age, experience and a love of urban environments.
A few passages derive directly from Gornick’s 1996 essay collection Approaching Eye Level, including a long section lifted from “On the Street,” Gornick’s vibrant New Yorker essay on the.