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Vivian Gornick

Approaching Eye Level

€13,95

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 feminism 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.

 

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 2020
Publisher: Daunt Books
Pages: 184
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9781911547648
ISBN 10: 191154764X

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Approaching Eye Level

€13,95