![]() ![]() These women with their opposing models of femininity continue, well into adulthood, to affect Gornick's struggle to find herself in love and in work. ![]() Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the prinicpal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. ![]() There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Summary: In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. ![]()
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