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Starka band
Pocket, 2023
89 kr
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Den bästa memoar som skrivits de senaste 50 åren, enligt kritiker i New York Times. ”Svidande ärlig och burdus, rolig och förkrossande.” Borås tidning ”I sin memoar skildrar hon det snåriga förhållandet till modern och de egna svårigheterna med att få ihop arbete, kärlek och relationer. Och hon gör …
The Situation and the Story
The Art of Personal Narrative
Häftad, 2002
269 kr
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A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale …
Den udda kvinnan och staden
Inbunden, 2022
4,1 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (9)
246 kr
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1987 skrev Vivian Gornick den bländande memoaren Starka band . Då var hon kring femtio. När hon skriver den andra delen av sitt liv har det hunnit bli 2015, världen är en helt annan, och Vivian Gornick själv är 80. Den udda kvinnan och staden är hennes vidräkning med hur det blev. Livet som kvinna …
Aldrig färdig : en obotlig omläsares memoarer
Inbunden, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
269 kr
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Vad kan samma text betyda när man är tjugo och förälskad, fyrtio och frånskild eller åttio plus och i ett tillstånd där man blickar tillbaka på livet? Helt olika saker, visar det sig. Vivian Gornick återvänder till böckerna som påverkat henne mest och följer sig själv som läsare genom åldrarna. I …
Romance of American Communism
Häftad, 2020
479 kr
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"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 …
Taking A Long Look
Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time
Häftad, 2022
149 kr
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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 experience. Drawing writing from the course of her career, Taking a Long Look illuminates one …
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide
Av Robin D. G. Kelley, Vivian Gornick
Häftad, 2025
258 kr
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Best American Essays 2023
Av Robert Atwan, Vivian Gornick
E-bok, 2023
157 kr
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A collection of the years best essays, selected by award-winning writer Vivian Gornick.Vivian Gornick, renowned essayist and celebrated feminist writer, selectstwenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form publishedthe previous year.
Best American Essays 2023
Av Robert Atwan, Vivian Gornick
Ljudbok, 2023
233 kr
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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 …
Men in My Life
E-bok, 2008
244 kr
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Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate relationship between emotional damage and great literature. Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled the …
Emma Goldman
Revolution as a Way of Life
Häftad, 2013
194 kr
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A vibrant, deeply human portrait of a woman dedicated to fierce protest against the tyranny of institutions over individuals, by the celebrated authorEmma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her …
Fierce Attachments
A Memoir
Häftad, 2005
227 kr
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Vivian Gornicks Fierce Attachments hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist authors mesmerizing, thrilling truths within its pageshas been selected by the publications book critics as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years. In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian …
Odd Woman and the City
A Memoir
Häftad, 2016
221 kr
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A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography 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 …
Unfinished Business
Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
Häftad, 2021
151 kr
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Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism, memoir, and biography, one of our most celebrated …
Fierce Attachments
A Memoir
E-bok, 2005
187 kr
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Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments —hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author’s “mesmerizing, thrilling” truths within its pages—has been selected by the publication’s book critics as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years. In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian …
Situation and the Story
The Art of Personal Narrative
E-bok, 2002
192 kr
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A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale …
True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives
Av Diane Johnson, Vivian Gornick
Häftad, 2020
198 kr
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A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, who was brilliant, unconventional, and at odds with the constraints of Victorian life. “Many people have described the Famous Writer …
Romance of American Communism
E-bok, 2020
200 kr
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"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 …
Taking A Long Look
Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time
E-bok, 2021
115 kr
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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 experience. Drawing writing from the course of her career, Taking a Long Look illuminates one …
Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide
Av Elaine Scarry, Vivian Gornick m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
199 kr
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide is Boston Review's 50th anniversary issue. This milestone issue features many of our longtime contributors, including Robin D. G. Kelley, Vivian Gornick, and Elaine Scarry, and celebrates classics from our archive. In this …
