Fierce Attachments

A Memoir

Fierce Attachments

Gornick, Vivian

Editorial Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Fecha de edición septiembre 2005 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780374529963
224 páginas
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
Dimensiones 141 mm x 222 mm


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Resumen del libro


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.
As Gornick walks with her aged mother through the streets of New York, arguing and remembering the past, each wins the reader's admiration: the caustic and clear-thinking daughter, for her courage and tenacity in really talking to her mother about the most basic issues of their lives, and the still powerful and intuitively-wise old woman, who again and again proves herself her daughter's mother.
Unsparing, deeply courageous, Fierce Attachments is one of the most remarkable documents of family feeling that has been written, a classic that helped start the memoir boom and remains one of the most moving examples of the genre.

Biografía del autor

Vivian Gornick (Nueva York, 1935). Nació y creció en el Bronx. En 1969 comenzó a escribir en el x{0026}lt;i Village Voicex{0026}lt;/i x{0026} x02013;donde empezó a darle voz al movimiento feminista hasta convertirse en una de las figuras más reconocibles de Estados Unidos en este campox{0026} x02013; y, posteriormente, en medios como x{0026}lt;i The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/i o x{0026}lt;i The Nation.x{0026}lt;/i En Sexto Piso hemos publicado sus libros x{0026}lt;i Apegos feroces, La mujer singular y la ciudadx{0026}lt;/i y x{0026}lt;i Mirarse de frente. Cuentas pendientes,x{0026}lt;/i finalista del Premio Nacional de la Crítica en Estados Unidos, es su último libro hasta la fecha.




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