Approaching Eye Level

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Seminal essays on loneliness, living in New York, friendship, feminism, and writing from nonfiction master Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick’s Approaching Eye Level is a brave collection of personal essay

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  • Author: Gornick, Vivian
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Page Count: 176
  • Publish Date: March 03 2020
  • ISBN10: 0374538255
  • Language: English
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Seminal essays on loneliness, living in New York, friendship, feminism, and writing from nonfiction master Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick’s Approaching Eye Level is a brave collection of personal essays that finds a quintessentially contemporary woman (urban, single, feminist) trying to observe herself and the world without sentiment, cynicism, or nostalgia. Whether walking along the streets of New York or teaching writing at a university, Gornick is a woman exploring her need for conversation and connection–with men and women, colleagues and strangers. She recalls her stint as a waitress in the Catskills and a failed friendship with an older woman and mentor, and reconsiders her experiences in the feminist movement, while living alone, and in marriage.

Turning her trademark sharp eye on herself, Gornick works to see her part in things–how she has both welcomed and avoided contact, and how these attempts at connections have enlivened and, at times, defeated her. First published in 1996, Approaching Eye Level is an unrelentingly honest collection of essays that finds Gornick at her best, reminding us that we can come to know ourselves only by engaging fully with the world.

Author: Vivian Gornick
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 03/03/2020
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780374538255
Language: English

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Author

Gornick, Vivian

Binding

ISBN10

0374538255

ISBN13

9780374538255

Page Count

176

Published Date

March 03 2020

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