EAN: 9781250785725

UNFINISHED BUSINESS - VIVIAN GORNICK KARTONIERT...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2020. One
of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her
lifeI sometimes think I was born reading . . . I can't remember the time when I didn't have a
book in my hands  my head lost to the world around me. Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic
Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's celebration of passionate reading  of returning again and again
to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse
literary criticism  memoir  and biography  one of our most celebrated critics writes about the
importance of reading-and re-reading-as life progresses. Gornick finds herself in contradictory
characters within D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers  assesses womanhood in Colette's The
Vagabond and The Shackle  and considers the veracity of memory in Marguerite Duras's The Lover.
She revisits Great War novels by J. L. Carr and Pat Barker  uncovers the psychological
complexity of Elizabeth Bowen's prose  and soaks in Natalia Ginzburg  a writer whose work has
often made me love life more. After adopting two cats  whose erratic behavior she finds vexing
she discovers Doris Lessing's Particularly Cats. Guided by Gornick's trademark verve and
insight  Unfinished Business is a masterful appreciation of literature's power to illuminate
our lives from a peerless writer and thinker who still read[s] to feel the power of Life with a
capital L.

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