Unfinished Business

Resumen del libro

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism, memoir, and biography, one of our most celebrated critics writes about the importance of reading - and re-reading - as life progresses. Gornick finds herself in contradictory characters within D.

H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, assesses womanhood in Colette's The Vagabond and The Shackle, and considers the veracity of memory in Marguerite Duras's The Lover. She revisits Great War novels by J.

L. Carr and Pat Barker, uncovers the psychological complexity of Elizabeth Bowen's prose, and soaks in Natalia Ginzburg, "a writer whose work has often made me love life more." After adopting two cats, whose erratic behavior she finds vexing, she discovers Doris Lessing's Particularly Cats. Guided by Gornick's trademark verve and insight, Unfinished Business is a masterful appreciation of literature's power to illuminate our lives from a peerless writer and thinker who "still read s to feel the power of Life with a capital L."

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 .