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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Gornick, Vivian.     Subjects     Gornick, Vivian.     Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.     Feminists -- United States -- Biography.     Daughters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Mothers and daughters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gornick, Vivian.       by title:      Fierce attachments :...       by call number:      974.71043 G671f     Search the Web     Gornick, Vivian.     Gornick, Vivian.     Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.     Feminists -- United States -- Biography.     Daughters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Mothers and daughters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.       MARC Display

Fierce attachments : a memoir / Vivian Gornick. by Gornick, Vivian. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005, 1987. Call #: 974.71043 G671f Subjects Gornick, Vivian.   Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.   Feminists -- United States -- Biography.   Daughters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.   Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.   Mothers and daughters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.   New York (N.Y.) -- Biography. ISBN:  9780374529963 (pbk.) Description:  viii, 203 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  Originally published 1987. Summary:  "In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the prinicpal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband. Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. These women with their opposing models of femininity continue, well into adulthood, to affect Gornick's struggle to find herself in love and in work. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 974.71043 G671f Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 974.71043 G671f Core Collection - Adult Checked out Jul 05, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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