Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time by Gornick, Vivian

Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781788739771)

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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time by Gornick, Vivian

Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time

$26.95
Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time by Gornick, Vivian

Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time

$26.95
Format: Hardcover
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One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self

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 of the driving themes behind Gornick's work: that the painful process of understanding one's self is what binds us to the larger world.

In these essays, Gornick explores the lives and literature of Alfred Kazin, Mary McCarthy, Diana Trilling, Philip Roth, Joan Didion, and Herman Melville; the cultural impact of Silent Spring and Uncle Tom's Cabin; and the characters you might only find in a New York barber shop or midtown bus terminal. Even more, Taking a Long Look brings back into print her incendiary essays, first published in the Village Voice, championing the emergence of the women's liberation movement of the 1970s.

Alternately crackling with urgency or lucid with insight, the essays in Taking a Long Look demonstrate one of America's most beloved critics at her best.

Author: Vivian Gornick
ISBN-10: 1788739779
ISBN-13: 9781788739771
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 03/16/2021
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/23/2020
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2021
Shelf Awareness 03/19/2021
By Vivian Gornick
By 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. Growing up in the Bronx among communists and socialists, Gornick became a legendary writer for Village Voice, chronicling the emergence of the feminist movement in the 1970s, and a respected literary critic. Her works include the memoirs Fierce Attachments--ranked the best memoir of the last fifty years by the New York Times--The Odd Woman and the City, and Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader, as well as the classic text on writing, The Situation and the Story.

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