Vivian Gornick is the author of many books, including Fierce Attachments- A Memoir, The Romance of American Communism, The End of the Novel of Love, The Situation and the Story, and, most recently, The Solitude of the Self- Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Gornick remains one of the more intelligent, independent-minded
readers writing criticism today, one who insists on making a
connection between how we read and how we live.... The essays in
this collection, in their conviction about the relevance of
literature in this hypertext age and their attentiveness to the
irritant of all-too-human despair that yields the pearl of lasting
art, will provide enjoyment and illumination for fans old and
new.—Bookforum
Gornick is a vigorous and sophisticated thinker.... [The Men in My
Life] illustrates how magnificent the literary yield of human
frailty can be.... [An] excellent collection.—Library Journal
... [the book] for the man who loves women.—Playboy
Vivian Gornick makes you want to read. In her new collection of
essays, The Men in My Life, authors, all great literary men, come
alive on the page like great characters, bleeding, raging and most
of all trying (but almost always failing) to love.—Los Angeles
Times Book Review
Gornick, a reader of immense sympathy and insight, is not out to
expose and chasten the unseemly underbellies of the men in her
life, but rather, as she says in the preface to this short, elegant
book, 'to think more inclusively about the emotional imprisonment
of mind and spirit to which all human beings are heir.'—Village
Voice
Whether she is writing about a friendship that has gone wrong or
the work of James Baldwin, Gornick brings a rare honesty,
appropriate anger, striking precision and great tenderness to her
subject.—New Statesman
[Gornick] is fearless.... Reading her essays, one is reassured that
the conversation between life and literature is mutually sustaining
as well as mutually corrective.—New York Times Book Review, Praise
for The End of the Novel of Love
Reading [Gornick] is a thrilling, invigorating, challenging
experience.—Boston Sunday Globe, Praise for The End of the Novel of
Love
Vivian Gornick's prose is so penetrating that reading it can be
almost painful.... [This book] stands out as a model of luminous
clarity.—Los Angeles Times, Praise for The End of the Novel of
Love
I love writers who treat thinking as a dynamic process. Ms. Gornick
does—here and in all her books. Imagine a photographer of the
psyche. She studies her subject from all angles. Whether in
close-up or on a landscape crowded with political and religious
movements, she explores the public and private selves.... What a
potent book this is!—New York Times, Praise for The Solitude of the
Self
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