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litsirk 's review for:
The Odd Woman and the City
by Vivian Gornick
This was just such a pleasure to read. Something about her writing absolutely clicks for me. There are general-experience EXACTLYs like this:
"No one is more surprised than me that I turned out to be who I am."
" 'I'm not the right person for this life,' I say.
'Who is?' he says, exhaling in my direction."
"It is the great illusion of our culture that what we confess to is who we are."
And there are several parts that resonate so hard with life as it is now, at this moment in history:
"Standing there on the island in the middle of Broadway, I realized what it was that we were losing: it was nostalgia......an absence made available only to those who feel themselves standing at the end of history, staring .... into the is-ness of what is."
"Civilization is breaking up? The city is deranged? The century surreal? Move faster. Find the story line more quickly."
There are amazing anecdotes from her life and from lives she's read about; there's a stream of thought carrying it all in a way more profound than its parts.
"No one is more surprised than me that I turned out to be who I am."
" 'I'm not the right person for this life,' I say.
'Who is?' he says, exhaling in my direction."
"It is the great illusion of our culture that what we confess to is who we are."
And there are several parts that resonate so hard with life as it is now, at this moment in history:
"Standing there on the island in the middle of Broadway, I realized what it was that we were losing: it was nostalgia......an absence made available only to those who feel themselves standing at the end of history, staring .... into the is-ness of what is."
"Civilization is breaking up? The city is deranged? The century surreal? Move faster. Find the story line more quickly."
There are amazing anecdotes from her life and from lives she's read about; there's a stream of thought carrying it all in a way more profound than its parts.