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Title: Taking A Long Look
Condition: New
Subtitle: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time
Author: Vivian Gornick
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1788739779
EAN: 9781788739771
ISBN: 9781788739771
Publisher: Verso Books
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships
Release Date: 16/03/2021
Description: For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing writing from the course of her career, All That is Given illuminates one of the driving themes behind Gornick's work: that the painful process of understanding one's self is what binds us to the larger world.

In these essays, Gornick explores the lives and literature of Alfred Kazin, Mary McCarthy, Diana Trilling, Philip Roth, Joan Didion, and Herman Melville; the cultural impact of Silent Spring and Uncle Tom's Cabin; and the characters you might only find in a New York barber shop or midtown bus terminal. Even more, All That Is Given brings back into print her incendiary essays, first published in the Village Voice, championing the emergence of the women's liberation movement of the 1970s.

Alternately crackling with urgency or lucid with insight, the essays in All That Is Given demonstrate one of America's most beloved critics at her best.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Width: 23mm
Item Weight: 391g
Release Year: 2021

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