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The odd woman and the city : a memoir / Vivian Gornick.

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Record Number 743959
ISBN 9781863958141 (paperback)
Author Gornick, Vivian author.
Title The odd woman and the city : a memoir / Vivian Gornick.
Publisher/Date Carlton, VIC : Nero, 2016.
©2015
Pagination etc. 192 pages ; 20 cm
Summary Note Vivian Gornick loves to walk - to absorb the drama, humor, and humanity of the New York City streets, to see 'the fifty different ways people struggle to remain human.' After a lifetime of navigating the city on her own terms, Gornick uses the metropolis as both her mirror and her muse as she examines her fiercely independent life along with the dilemma of connection in our time. Her closest walking companion is Leonard, a gay man with whom she has a long-standing relationship that is as gratifying as it is contentious. As her discussions with Leonard play in her mind, she dismantles the idea of the anonymous city, finding solace on a crowded bus, among the pundits in Times Square, and watching a bank of lights go on at dusk in an adjacent apartment building. 'I have lived out my conflicts not my fantasies,' she writes, 'and so has New York. We are at one.' Engaging with a city that challenges, inspires, and sometimes thwarts a single woman, The Odd Woman and the City is a deeply moving ode to Gotham, and to the friendships and encounters that invigorate and ground a life in the city.
Subject - Name Gornick, Vivian
Subject Friendship
Interpersonal relations
City and town life -- New York (State)New York
Shelf Location 813.54 GORN
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