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Vivian Gornick
Vivian Gornick's noted essays on literature and feminism have appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, The Nation, and other national publications. She lives in New York.
The end of the novel of love
Synopsis
In this book of new and collected critical essays, Vivian Gornick turns the searching intelligence and honesty of insight that mark her memoirs on the work - and the lives - of writers she admires, among them Jean Rhys, Willa Cather, Christina Stead, and George Meredith. In doing so, she examines a century of novels of love-in-the-Western-world and comes to see that, for most writers, it is the drama of our angry and frightened selves in the presence of love that is our modern preoccupation.