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Fierce Attachments: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick

akadie's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

2.75

nmkeaney's review against another edition

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challenging reflective medium-paced

4.75

jowixx's review against another edition

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4.0

4+
Przywiązania uwodzą niespiesznie i niepostrzeżenie. Pozornie czytają się same, można stracić czujność, ale ważne okazuje się każde słowo, każdy pasaż. Złożona tożsamość autorki jest znacząca, ale na pierwszy plan wychodzą relacje - gęste, pogmatwane, opisane z zadziwiającą precyzją, chłodną wrażliwością i obezwładniającą, szczerą inteligencją.
Vivian Gornick, spacerując z matką po tętniącym życiem Nowym Jorku, wraca do przeszłości, przygląda się w swoich wspomnieniach i konsekwentnie odzyskuje dla siebie przestrzeń wolności - od napisanych dla niej ról, od tabuizacji seksu, od własnego żalu.
To było ważne spotkanie, szkoda że tak krótkie, pozostawiło niedosyt.
PS. Ah no i ta okładka... Zasługuje na pełną ekspozycję ❤️

steller0707's review against another edition

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4.0

Gornick and her mother are so alike and so different, as portrayed in her memoir. It's an honest reflection on their relationship and that with their friend Nettie. Both women were enormous influences in Gornick's life. It's also a reflection on the lives of women only one generation apart.

beataekert's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

elfs29's review against another edition

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slow-paced

2.75

I like the content of this book but I think I just prefer fiction over memoirs. The matter of fact tone of this book just did not invite much interest for me, but Gornick is clearly very intelligent and I would like to read some of her fiction.

Mama had assumed her widowhood in the same way. It elevated her in her own eyes, made of her a spiritually significant person, lent richness to her gloom and rhetoric to her speech. Papa's death became a religion that provided ceremony and doctrine. A woman-who-has-lost-the-love-of-her-life was now her orthodoxy: she paid it Talmudic attention.

ominousevent's review against another edition

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I love to hear the way people talk. Listening to this book narrated by the author gave me great joy for that reason alone. It is also powerful, intriguing, sometimes funny, often sad. I appreciate the way Gornick tells these stories of her life, without seeming too concerned with whether she makes herself look good or not. And I don't know how anyone can reveal so much of themself to untold strangers everywhere.

tiffanyblue's review against another edition

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emotional reflective

3.0

isabelbrc's review against another edition

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reflective relaxing fast-paced

3.5

Nice story and very well written. 

vantiae's review against another edition

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4.5

 esa tarde pensé «una de las dos va a morir a causa de este apego»

y ahí fue cuando me descompuse completamente