Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader - Couverture souple

Gornick, Vivian

 
9781250785725: Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
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ISBN 10 : 1250785723 ISBN 13 : 9781250785725
Editeur : Picador USA, 2021

Synopsis

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2020.

One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life

I sometimes think I was born reading . . . I can't remember the time when I didn't have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.

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."

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À propos de l?auteur

Vivian Gornick's books include Approaching Eye Level, The End of The Novel of Love, and The Situation and The Story. She lives in New York City.

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Éditeur
Picador USA
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1250785723
ISBN 13 
9781250785725
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780374282158: Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0374282153 ISBN 13 :  9780374282158
Editeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2020
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