{"product_id":"taking-a-long-look-by-vivian-gornick-9781788739771","title":"Taking A Long Look","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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, \u003ci\u003eAll That is Given\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e; and the characters you might only find in a New York barber shop or midtown bus terminal. Even more, \u003ci\u003eAll That Is Given\u003c\/i\u003e brings back into print her incendiary essays, first published in the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, championing the emergence of the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlternately crackling with urgency or lucid with insight, the essays in \u003ci\u003eAll That Is Given\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrate one of America’s most beloved critics at her best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47341188186348,"sku":"9781788739771","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23926753482824.jpg?v=1772185692","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/taking-a-long-look-by-vivian-gornick-9781788739771","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}