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Fierce Attachments: A Memoir Book

Rarely is the barbed edge of mother love described with such scorching wit and raw emotion as it is in Vivian Gornick's reissued memoir. Fierce Attachments zigzags between a Bronx tenement teeming with immigrants in the 1940s and New York in the 1980s. It chronicles an almighty struggle between the author and her mother, a stubborn rabble-rouser bursting with tart, angry pronouncements, moxie, and an undeniable measure of charm. Waving away an "Eastern religionist" trying to sell her on his god, she raps out: "Young man, I am a Jew and a socialist. I think that's more than enough for one lifetime, don't you?" Her husband's untimely death is the occasion for such wild histrionics--screaming, refusing to walk, flinging herself into the grave--that when Gornick works the Middle East years later as a journalist, the ululating cries and fainting mourners at funerals seem comfortably familiar. The rapid-fire flow of confidences and furious arguments between the duo mellow slightly, believably, as they grow older together.Read More

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  • Product Description

    The acclaimed memoirist's classic exploration of her relationship with her mother.

    "A fine, unflinchingly honest book."
    -Mona Simpson, The New York Times Book Review

  • 0807071234
  • 9780807071236
  • Vivian Gornick
  • 31 October 1997
  • Beacon Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 203
  • Reprint
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