02535nam a2200301u  4500003000500000005001700005007000300022008004100025010001300066020002300079040003000102043001200132049000900144050002400153082002600177100002800203245005400231260004600285300002100331520153800352600002801890650006101918650005601979650007602035942001402111999001502125952009302140DLC 20250627123129.0ta110519s1987    nyu           000 0aeng    a86033521  a03741529963c15.00  aDLCcDLCdDLCdWaOLNdAJM  an-us-ny  aMEF100aHQ755.85b.G67 198700a974.7/104/0924aB2191 aGornick, Vivian.92075410aFierce attachments :ba memoir /cVivian Gornick.  aNew York :bFarrar Straus Giroux,cc1987.  a203 p. ;c23 cm.  aIn this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. 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. 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. Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. 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. As Gornick walks with her aged mother through the streets of New York, arguing and remembering the past, each wins the reader's admiration: the caustic and clear-thinking daughter, for her courage and tenacity in really talking to her mother about the most basic issues of their lives, and the still powerful and intuitively-wise old woman, who again and again proves herself her daughter's mother. Unsparing, deeply courageous, Fierce Attachments is one of the most remarkable documents of family feeling that has been written, a classic that helped start the memoir boom and remains one of the most moving examples of the genre10aGornick, Vivian.920754 0aDaughterszNew York (State)zNew YorkvBiography.920755 0aJewszNew York (State)zNew YorkvBiography.920756 0aMothers and daughterszNew York (State)zNew YorkvCase studies.920757  2ddccBOOK  c2644d2644  4070aABELJbabeljcBd2016-10-26l0oB GORNp20557r2016-10-26v15.00w2016-10-26yBOOK