Fierce Attachments (Record no. 69136)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781907970658
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 814.54 GOR
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gornick,Vivian
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Fierce Attachments
Remainder of title : A Memoir
Statement of responsibility, etc / Vivian Gornick
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement Softcover
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Daunt Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc ,1987
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 203p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Vivian Gornick’s Fierce Attachments—hailed by the New York Times 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.<br/><br/>In 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.<br/><br/>Born 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.<br/><br/>As Gornick walks with her aged mother through the streets of New York, arguing and remembering the past, each wins the reader’s 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.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Literature
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biography Feminism Womens
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biography Memoir
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Koha item type Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type Public note
    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 08/06/2026   814.54 GOR G8013 08/06/2026 08/06/2026 Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection
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