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in which she examines various connections between love and literature-stands out as a model of luminous clarity. Susie Linfield, Los Angeles Times

in which she examines various connections between love and literature-stands out as a model of luminous clarity. Susie Linfield, Los Angeles Times.

But this book ends up only stating the problem, how romantic love and sexual connections frequently devolve into bitter . Vivian Gornick is one of the great voices of our times.

But this book ends up only stating the problem, how romantic love and sexual connections frequently devolve into bitter feelings of entrapment, without literary examples of transcending this state. The End of the Novel of Love would make an excellent companion piece to The Argonauts - where Maggie Nelson explores what it means to love in an age of gender and sexual revolution, Gornick argues incisively, gorgeously, and persuasively that the terms of love have changed since the 19th century - and that this has changed the stakes of love in fiction.

In doing so, she examines a century of novels of world and comes to see that, for most writers, it is the drama of our angry and frightened selves in the presence of love that is our modern preoccupation.

This is simply one of the best books of essays I've encountered in years. Thank you, Vivian Gornick.

Offers powerful insight into the portrayal of romantic love by Jean Rhys, Clover Adams, Christina Stead, Willa Cather, Grace Paley, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, and others. This is simply one of the best books of essays I've encountered in years.

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The End of the Novel of Love (1997, Beacon Press; Nominated for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism).

Vivian Gornick (2018). 1935-06-14) June 14, 1935 (age 84) The Bronx, New York City. The End of the Novel of Love (1997, Beacon Press; Nominated for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism). The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2005, Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The Men in My Life (2008, MIT Press; National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for criticism).

in which she examines various connections between love and literature-stands out as a model of luminous clarity.

This book, which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the . An insightful examination of personal narratives. In the course of her discussion, teacher and journalist Gornick (The End of the Novel of Love, 1997, et. observes, "Thirty years ago people who.

This book, which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the lucid intelligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of nonfiction.

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