Approaching eye level
Gornick, Vivian2020
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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 Catskills where she waitressed as a student in the late fifties. She describes her introduction to the feminism of the 1970s and the lessons it taught her, reflects on a friendship with an older female writer that faltered, and analyses the failure of connection among like-minded people. She considers what it means to live alone, and the absorbed solitude of writing letters. Approaching Eye Level is an unrelentingly honest collection of essays that finds Gornick at her best, reminding us that we can come to know ourselves only by engaging fully with the world.
Main title:
Approaching eye level / Vivian Gornick.
Author:
Gornick, Vivian, author
Imprint:
London : Daunt Books, 2020.©1996
Collation:
184 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: Boston, MA : Beacon Press, 1996.
ISBN:
97819115476489781911547648 (paperback)
Dewey class:
814.54
Language:
English
BRN:
384599
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature | 814.54 GOR | Available |