The end of the novel of love /
In this book of new and collected critical essays, Vivian Gornick turns the searching intelligence and honesty of insight that mark her memoirs on the work - and the lives - of writers she admires, among them Jean Rhys, Willa Cather, Christina Stead, and George Meredith. In doing so, she examines a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2020.
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| Edition: | First Picador edition. |
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| Summary: | In this book of new and collected critical essays, Vivian Gornick turns the searching intelligence and honesty of insight that mark her memoirs on the work - and the lives - of writers she admires, among them Jean Rhys, Willa Cather, Christina Stead, and George Meredith. In doing so, she examines a century of novels of love-in-the-Western-world and comes to see that, for most writers, it is the drama of our angry and frightened selves in the presence of love that is our modern preoccupation. |
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| Item Description: | Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Beacon Press, ©1997 |
| Physical Description: | 165 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780374538262 0374538263 |