Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time

by Vivian Gornick

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"For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing on writing from the course of her career, this book illuminates one of the driving themes behind Gornick's work: the painful process of understanding one's self that binds us to the larger world"--

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i just love the way she thinks and the way she constructs arguments, what a pleasure to read such a mind at work

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Vivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in The Best American Essays 2014. Her works include the memoirs Fierce Attachments and The Odd Woman and the City and the classic text on writing The Situation and the Story.

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Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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814.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican essays in English20th Century1945-1999
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PS3557 .O765 .T35Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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