![]() ![]() Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the principal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond.īorn 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. ![]() 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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