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Rarely is the barbed edge of mother love described with such scorching wit and raw emotion as it is in Vivian Gornick's reissued memoir. Fierce Attachments zigzags between a Bronx tenement teeming with immigrants in the 1940s and New York in the 1980s. It chronicles an almighty struggle between the author and her mother, a stubborn rabble-rouser bursting with tart, angry pronouncements, moxie, and an undeniable measure of charm. Waving away an "Eastern religionist" trying to sell her on his god, she raps out: "Young man, I am a Jew and a socialist. I think that's more than enough for one lifetime, don't you?" Her husband's untimely death is the occasion for such wild histrionics--screaming, refusing to walk, flinging herself into the grave--that when Gornick works the Middle East years later as a journalist, the ululating cries and fainting mourners at funerals seem comfortably familiar. The rapid-fire flow of confidences and furious arguments between the duo mellow slightly, believably, as they grow older together.
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Vivian Gornick, "one of the most vital and indispensable essayists of our cultural moment" (Phillip Lopate), has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, and other journals.
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- PublisherDaunt Books
- Publication date2015
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Vivian Gornick's relationship with her mother is difficult. She describes it as 'locked in a narrow channel of acquaintance, intense and binding.' Out of duty, or perhaps more aptly, guilt, she and her mother regularly meet for strolls along the streets of Manhattan. Once in awhile, they'll hit a pleasant stride but most often their walks are tinged with a rage so 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 growing up in a bustling, blue-collar tenement house in the Bronx, Vivian Gornick traces her lifelong struggle for independence from her mother and, along the way, realises how she is still very much her mother's daughter. Originally published in 1987 to great acclaim, Fierce Attachments is a beloved and intimate story by a masterful writer. A beloved and intimate story of a conflicted relationship between mother and daughter by a masterful and unique writer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781907970658
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