{"product_id":"fierce-attachments-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Fierce Attachments: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVivian Gornick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJonathan Lethem\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVivian Gornick's \u003ci\u003eFierce Attachments\u003c\/i\u003e--hailed by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e for the renowned feminist author's \"mesmerizing, thrilling\" truths within its pages--has been selected by the publication's book critics as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called \"the principal crux of female despair\" the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of \"urban peasants,\" Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband. Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. These women with their opposing models of femininity continue, well into adulthood, to affect Gornick's struggle to find herself in love and in work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Gornick walks with her aged mother through the streets of New York, arguing and remembering the past, each wins the reader's admiration: the caustic and clear-thinking daughter, for her courage and tenacity in really talking to her mother about the most basic issues of their lives, and the still powerful and intuitively-wise old woman, who again and again proves herself her daughter's mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnsparing, deeply courageous, \u003ci\u003eFierce Attachments\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most remarkable documents of family feeling that has been written, a classic that helped start the memoir boom and remains one of the most moving examples of the genre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Gornick] stares unflinchingly at all that is hidden, difficult, strange, unresolvable in herself and others--at loneliness, sexual malice and the devouring, claustral closeness of mothers and daughters...[\u003ci\u003eFierce Attachments\u003c\/i\u003e is] a portrait of the artist as she finds a language--original, allergic to euphemism and therapeutic banalities--worthy of the women that raised her.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVivian Gornick\u003c\/b\u003e's books include \u003ci\u003eApproaching Eye Level\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe End of The Novel of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Situation and The Story\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52444368666931,"sku":"9780374529963","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UmhkN2ZOVllMVUVsclhOUWQ1czhJZz09.webp?v=1758938244","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/fierce-attachments-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}