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A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography
A contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spirit of Fierce Attachments
A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same. Running steadily through the book is Vivian Gornick's exchange of more than twenty years with Leonard, a gay man who is sophisticated about his own unhappiness, whose friendship has "shed more light on the mysterious nature of ordinary human relations than has any other intimacy" she has known. The exchange between Gornick and Leonard acts as a Greek chorus to the main action of the narrator's continual engagement on the street with grocers, derelicts, and doormen; people on the bus, cross-dressers on the corner, and acquaintances by the handful. In Leonard she sees herself reflected plain; out on the street she makes sense of what she sees.
Written as a narrative collage that includes meditative pieces on the making of a modern feminist, the role of the flaneur in urban literature, and the evolution of friendship over the past two centuries, The Odd Woman and the City beautifully bookends Gornick's acclaimed Fierce Attachments, in which we first encountered her rich relationship with the ultimate metropolis.
- Sales Rank: #642267 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-19
- Released on: 2015-05-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.79" h x .83" w x 5.23" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 192 pages
Review
“[F]unny and elegiac and truth-dealing. . . . It's a slim book with big echoes. . . . What puts The Odd Woman and the City across, however, is how deeply Ms. Gornick gets into the fat of feeling. She is as good a writer about friendship as we have.” ―Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“[An] elusive and stirring memoir” ―David Ulin, Los Angeles Times
“[Vivian Gornick is] a kind of ambassador for those most contested, conflicted of American genres, the personal essay and the memoir.” ―Emily Stokes, The New York Times Book Review
“The best books, like the best friends and their best emails, like the most intimate and comforting conversations, make us feel understood. They make us feel like home is home. The Odd Woman and the City can be read as a guidebook for how to exist.” ―Katherine Taylor, Los Angeles Times Review of Books
“Gornick's most ambitious attempt yet at the nonromance plot . . . richly felt.” ―Laura Marsh, The New Republic
“A series of sharply observed vignettes.” ―The New Yorker
“In an age of often pointless confessional writing, Gornick remains a master of purposeful personal narrative.” ―Isabella Biedenharn, Entertainment Weekly
“One of the most vital and indispensable essayists of our cultural moment.” ―Phillip Lopate
“Reading [Gornick] is a thrilling, invigorating, challenging experience.” ―Barbara Fisher, The Boston Sunday Globe
“Vivian Gornick . . . has produced a new volume in the stubbornly candid, piercingly intelligent voice that informed her literary essays and criticism. . . . a ferocious intellectual inquisitiveness and a lifetime affair with a city where Gornick's aliveness, her alertness are rewarded daily.” ―Misha Berson, The Seattle Times
“Gornick explores the ebb and flow of relationships with a blunt yet emotionally deft hand.” ―Jenn Fields, The Denver Post
“[A] marvelous new memoir . . . Yes, we fall in love with Vivian Gornick - her chutzpah and fine mind, her wit, perseverance and resolve.” ―The Buffalo News
About the Author
Vivian Gornick's books include Approaching Eye Level, The End of The Novel of Love, and The Situation and The Story. She lives in New York City.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Marvelous (sort of) memoir
By kb from la
This is such a wonderful book. Not really a memoir, it’s more reflections on past and present by an important feminist theorist/critic now in her 70s, living in New York. The living in New York part is crucial because Gornick is choosing to focus on her life as a (now) single, childless woman who finds inspiration and contentment in her daily ramblings around the city.
The author grounds her experience in a theoretical framework—the flaneur as anonymous eye happily wandering modern urban spaces—but you’d get her point anyway. Gornick finds much meaning in the random everyday encounters provided by the rich streetlife of a great city. We travel with her down those streets and, given that’s she’s a great story teller, it’s a lot of fun.
The Odd Woman and the City integrates Gornick’s observations of city life with fascinating reflections on what it means to be a feminist woman of a certain age, a solitary apartment dweller, a friend of other solitary New Yorkers, etc. Bits of philosophy, literary criticism and autobiography alternate to good effect. Particularly if you share age, experience and a love of urban environments with the author, you are sure to enjoy her book.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Insightful, nostalgic for women who once spent decades living ...
By judith tanzer
Insightful, nostalgic for women who once spent decades living in NyC. A ballad for women who
Live alone and cherish it with all tts contradictory feelings
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
She feels that New York City is the perfect place for quick encounters
By Bob Miller
A theme that runs through this book is that one does not truly live life while vested in a committed relationship, rather the meaningful growth happens during the transitory period between the meetings; the problem is, such a philosophy often leads to loneliness, as it apparently has in her case. She feels that New York City is the perfect place for quick encounters, quasi friendships, and short-lived lover affairs, because the city is bustling with every-changing characters, many with their own story to tell, and for the most part, noncommittal. Her description of the city reminds me of the character played by Dustin Hoffman in “Midnight Cowboy” where the small time con man is just trying to survive in New York. Gornick appears to feed off of the quirks exhibited by these street people she often runs into on the avenues. In a sense, they justify her existence. Not wanting to be “her mother’s daughter”, is the plan for her, but her yearning to live off of the “expressiveness” of these people who have not fled to the suburbs, is likely to keep her on track with this unwanted ending. Her attempt to rationalize her mostly solo existence, by referencing Freud’s theory, that one’s solitary goals are anguishing, but almost impossible to give up because they are needed for the inner souls, is not particularly compelling- for her, or in general. To me, she just seems somewhat selfish. She is good at times describing people. While at an apparently pretentious social dinner, she notices a blonde at the table “who picked fretfully at her food and wore a thin layer of anxiety over her make-up”. Throughout the book, she mentions her sidekick, “Leonard”, a gay man, she frequently takes long talking-walks with, where they discuss their present and past lives. He seems, emotionally speaking, similarly situated to Gornick; they both appear quite intelligent. One classic line attributed to him is, when he said in response to people blaming the crucifixion of Jesus on the Jews, “It was the Romans who killed him, why don’t they blame the Italians?” I can recommend this book.
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