Fierce Attachments Vivian Gornick, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15.95 (203p) ISBN 978-0-374-15485-1 More By and About This Author This supple, energized memoir chronicles Gornick's volatile. Needless to say, we had some fierce battles during long nights thereafter. This is what I like best; a seemingly unsolvable technical problem, and working relentlessly until it is finally resolved. I am looking for technical problem solving challenges, self-employed or as employee. I can help with modelling complex (thermo-)dynamical systems in. Heralded as a landmark in American autobiography, Fierce Attachments probes the intimate, sometimes destructive family passions that can shape a woman's childhood - and change her life forever. Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick. Browse The Guardian Bookshop for a big selection of History of the Americas books and the latest book reviews from The Gua Buy Fierce Attachments 658 by Vivian Gornick for only £.
This supple, energized memoir chronicles Gornick's volatile relationship with her mother and her unsuccessful battle to reject a legacy of hatred, depression, humiliation and self-pity. An able storyteller with a keen ear for dialogue, Gornick (Essays in Feminism effectively montages the intimate, crude kaffeeklatsches in the Bronx tenement of her youth with street scenes from present-day Manhattan. Particularly vivid is the portrait of Nettie, the sensual, Gentile outsider among Jewish immigrant neighbors, who drives a deeper wedge between mother and daughter when she takes the young Gornick under her tutelage. The author's inherited rage particularly doomed her relationships with men, she feels, and she supplies bleak details from her failed marriage as well as her affairs with an older married man and a psychotic childhood love. Unfortunately, the insightful 'deprivation litany' bogs down with ``knee-jerk antagonism,' therapy-talk and self-indulgence as a 48-year-old Gornick obsessively censures an 80-year-old mother. (April 20)Release date: 04/01/1987
Genre: Nonfiction
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