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Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
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
The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick; Robert Atwan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir | Series: Best American Ser.
In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience." Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many wr ...Show more
The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick
$33.00 NZD
Category: Politics
"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
The Situation and the Story : The art of personal narrative by Vivian Gornick
$40.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Taking readers on a tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James B ...Show more
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