anniefwrites 's review for:

The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick

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Vivian Gornick is a complicated woman, so it makes sense to me that my relationship with her writing would be too. At times she exasperated me and the literary language went over my head, and at others she inspired me with her crisp observations. She really did capture the essence of what New York is like, the strange minutiae of just walking about the city, and she made me miss it.