![]() 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. Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments hailed by the New York Times for the renowned feminist author’s mesmerizing, thrilling truths within its pageshas been selected by the publication’s book critics as the 1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years. ![]() 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. 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. 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. Fierce Attachments Hardcover Januby Vivian Gornick (Author) 504 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 10.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 35.20 11 Used from 31.23 1 New from 50.00 Paperback 13.99 2 Used from 16.26 9 New from 8.10 Audio CD 24. ![]() 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. ![]()
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