Fierce Attachments

Resumen del libro

'The story of an abiding, difficult love, full of grace and fire.' New York Times

Vivian Gornick's relationship with her mother is difficult. At the age of forty-five, she regularly meets her mother for strolls along the streets of Manhattan. Occasionally they'll hit a pleasant stride ? fondly recalling a shared nostalgia or chuckling over a mutual disgust ? but most often their walks are tinged with contempt, irritation, and rages so white hot her mother will stop strangers on the street and say, 'This is my daughter. She hates me'.

Weaving between their tempestuous present-day jaunts and the author's memories of the past, Gornick traces her lifelong struggle for independence from her mother ? from growing up in a blue-collar tenement house in the Bronx in the 1940s, newlywed grad student in Berkeley, to established New York journalist ? only to ultimately discover the many ways in which she is (and always has been) her mother's daughter.

Fierce Attachments is a searingly honest and intimate memoir about coming of age in a big city, and the perpetual bonds that keep us forever linked to our family.

Biografía del autor

Vivian Gornick nació en Nueva York en 1935 y creció en el Bronx. En 1969 comenzó a escribir en el Village Voice, donde dio voz al movimiento feminista hasta convertirse en una de las figuras más reconocibles de Estados Unidos en este campo, y continuó haciéndolo después en medios como /i The New York Times /i o /i The Nation /i . En /i Sexto Piso /i hemos publicado sus libros /i Apegos feroces /i , /i La mujer singular y la ciudad /i , /i Mirarse de frente /i , /i Cuentas pendientes /i , /i El fin de la novela de amor /i y /i La situación y la historia /i .