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Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader - Vivian Gornick

By Vivian Gornick

Release Date: 2020-02-04

Genre: Nonfiction

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One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.

ā€œI sometimes think I was born readingā€¦I canā€™t remember the time when I didnā€™t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.ā€

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornickā€™s celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism, memoir, and biography, one of our most celebrated critics writes about the importance of readingā€”and re-readingā€”as life progresses. Gornick finds herself in contradictory characters within D. H. Lawrenceā€™s Sons and Lovers, assesses womanhood in Coletteā€™s The Vagabond and The Shackle, and considers the veracity of memory in Marguerite Durasā€™s The Lover. She revisits Great War novels by J. L. Carr and Pat Barker, uncovers the psychological complexity of Elizabeth Bowenā€™s prose, and soaks in Natalia Ginzburg, ā€œa writer whose work has often made me love life more.ā€ After adopting two cats, whose erratic behavior she finds vexing, she discovers Doris Lessingā€™s Particularly Cats.

Guided by Gornickā€™s trademark verve and insight, Unfinished Business is a masterful appreciation of literatureā€™s power to illuminate our lives from a peerless writer and thinker who ā€œstill read[s] to feel the power of Life with a capital L.ā€

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader - Vivian Gornick

By Vivian Gornick

Release Date: 2020-02-04

Genre: Nonfiction

(0 ratings)
Play Full Download
One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.

ā€œI sometimes think I was born readingā€¦I canā€™t remember the time when I didnā€™t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.ā€

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornickā€™s celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism, memoir, and biography, one of our most celebrated critics writes about the importance of readingā€”and re-readingā€”as life progresses. Gornick finds herself in contradictory characters within D. H. Lawrenceā€™s Sons and Lovers, assesses womanhood in Coletteā€™s The Vagabond and The Shackle, and considers the veracity of memory in Marguerite Durasā€™s The Lover. She revisits Great War novels by J. L. Carr and Pat Barker, uncovers the psychological complexity of Elizabeth Bowenā€™s prose, and soaks in Natalia Ginzburg, ā€œa writer whose work has often made me love life more.ā€ After adopting two cats, whose erratic behavior she finds vexing, she discovers Doris Lessingā€™s Particularly Cats.

Guided by Gornickā€™s trademark verve and insight, Unfinished Business is a masterful appreciation of literatureā€™s power to illuminate our lives from a peerless writer and thinker who ā€œstill read[s] to feel the power of Life with a capital L.ā€

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