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The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick (Paperback / softback, 2016)
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- DescriptionA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, AutobiographyA contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spirit of Fierce Attachments A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, 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, t her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same. Running steadily through the book is Vivian Gornick's exchange of more than twenty years with Leonard, a gay man who is sophisticated about his own unhappiness, whose friendship has shed more light on the mysterious nature of ordinary human relations than has any other intimacy she has kwn. The exchange between Gornick and Leonard acts as a Greek chorus to the main action of the narrator's continual engagement on the street with grocers, derelicts, and doormen; people on the bus, cross-dressers on the corner, and acquaintances by the handful. In Leonard she sees herself reflected plain; out on the street she makes sense of what she sees. Written as a narrative collage that includes meditative pieces on the making of a modern feminist, the role of the flaneur in urban literature, and the evolution of friendship over the past two centuries, The Odd Woman and the City beautifully bookends Gornick's acclaimed Fierce Attachments, in which we first encountered her rich relationship with the ultimate metropolis.
- Author BiographyVivian 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.
Key Features
- Author(s)Vivian Gornick
- PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
- Date of Publication17/05/2016
- LanguageEnglish
- FormatPaperback / softback
- ISBN-100374536155
- ISBN-139780374536152
- SubjectAutobiography: General
Publication Data
- Country of PublicationUnited States
- ImprintFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Dimensions
- Weight91 g
- Width127 mm
- Height188 mm
- Spine13 mm
Editorial Details
- Format DetailsTrade paperback (US),Unsewn / adhesive bound
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