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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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