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Taking A Long Look

Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time
By Vivian Gornick
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Taking A Long Look by Vivian Gornick is a collection of essays that spans several decades, showcasing the author's keen observational skills and incisive intellect. Delving into the realms of feminism, literature, and everyday life, Gornick reflects on the personal and political landscape of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Through her thought-provoking analyses, Gornick provides readers with a rich tapestry of cultural commentary.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy insightful and thought-provoking essays that explore feminism, politics, and culture. The author, with her sharp wit and keen observations, examines the world with a critical, reflective eye, offering depth and nuance to everyday experiences. It's perfect for those who appreciate cultural analysis with personal narratives.

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One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self

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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.

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Vivian Gornick's Taking a Long Look is highly praised for its incisive and authoritative voice, capturing the essence of personal and cultural inquiry over fifty years. Reviewers commend Gornick's ability to blend literary and personal essays with rich, expressive prose that is both direct and evocative. Her work is characterised by a deep exploration of feminist themes and cultural critique, consistently engaging readers with its blend of personal reflection and intellectual rigor. The collection is lauded for its fresh language, vibrant insights, and for showcasing Gornick's formidable intelligence and distinct sensibility.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781788739771

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 March 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 391g

Pages: 304

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Education & Reference Non-Fiction Vivian Gornick

About the Author

Vivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in The Best American Essays 2014. Gornick was a legendary writer for Village Voice, chronicling the emergence of the feminist movement in the 1970s, and a respected literary critic. Her works include the memoirs Fierce Attachments - ranked the best memoir of the last fifty years by the New York Times - The Odd Woman and the City, and Unfinished Business, as well as the classic text on writing, The Situation and the Story.

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