{"product_id":"the-odd-woman-and-the-city-a-memoir-paperback","title":"The Odd Woman and the City: 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)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spirit of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFierce Attachments\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, \u003ci\u003eThe Odd Woman and the City\u003c\/i\u003e explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same. Running steadily through the book is Vivian Gornick's exchange of more than twenty years with Leonard, a gay man who is sophisticated about his own unhappiness, whose friendship has shed more light on the mysterious nature of ordinary human relations than has any other intimacy she has known. The exchange between Gornick and Leonard acts as a Greek chorus to the main action of the narrator's continual engagement on the street with grocers, derelicts, and doormen; people on the bus, cross-dressers on the corner, and acquaintances by the handful. In Leonard she sees herself reflected plain; out on the street she makes sense of what she sees.\u003cbr\u003e Written as a narrative collage that includes meditative pieces on the making of a modern feminist, the role of the \u003ci\u003eflaneur \u003c\/i\u003ein urban literature, and the evolution of friendship over the past two centuries, \u003ci\u003eThe Odd Woman and the City \u003c\/i\u003ebeautifully bookends Gornick's acclaimed \u003ci\u003eFierce Attachments\u003c\/i\u003e, in which we first encountered her rich relationship with the ultimate metropolis.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVivian Gornick\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of the acclaimed memoir \u003ci\u003eFierce Attachments\u003c\/i\u003e, a biography of Emma Goldman, and three essay collections: \u003ci\u003eThe Men in My Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eApproaching Eye Level\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Novel of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987431489837,"sku":"9780374536152","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/YUNsRmZMRnhjVS9xSEN4OXlQNDhyZz09.webp?v=1776178666","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-odd-woman-and-the-city-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}