Vivian Gornick
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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 vis mere Story. vis mindre
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Associated Works
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage (2002) — Bidragyder — 690 eksemplarer
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (1998) — Bidragyder — 298 eksemplarer
The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away (2005) — Bidragyder — 203 eksemplarer
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Bidragyder — 186 eksemplarer
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Bidragyder — 121 eksemplarer
Written by Herself, Volume II: Women's Memoirs from Britain, Africa, Asia, and the United States (1992) — Bidragyder — 87 eksemplarer
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Bidragyder — 82 eksemplarer
Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find There (A Beacon Anthology) (1999) — Bidragyder — 62 eksemplarer
How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships (2004) — Bidragyder — 58 eksemplarer
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- 1935-06-14
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- USA
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- The Bronx, New York, USA
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- Manhattan, New York, USA
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- City College of New York
New York University - Erhverv
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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?… (mere)