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Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
Vivian Gornick's writing has always explored the hard truths of existence: the nature of human loneliness, and the struggle to love, work, and connect. In these seven seminal essays Gornick chronicles the New York streets that energise her, and looks back on the dangerously charged atmosphere of the Cat ...Show more
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life by Vivian Gornick
$80.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one's senses, ...Show more
Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Vivian Gornick's relationship with her mother is difficult. At the age of forty-five, she regularly meets her mother for strolls along the streets of Manhattan. Occasionally they'll hit a pleasant stride - fondly recalling a shared nostalgia or chuckling over a mutual disgust - but most often their walk ...Show more
Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick
$45.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one’s self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick’s essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal ex ...Show more
Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick
$22.99 NZD
Category: Feminism
One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal exper ...Show more
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A 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 t ...Show more
The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick
$33.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
"Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class." So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world of socialists, communists, and progressives in the 1940s and 1950s created a rich, diverse world where ordinary men and women felt their lives connected to ...Show more
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader by Vivian Gornick
$26.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
I sometimes think I was born reading ... I can't remember the time when I didn't have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me. A celebration of the delights of rereading from the acclaimed author of The Odd Woman and the City In nine essays that meld criticism and memoir, Gornick retur ...Show more
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