The Men in My Life

by Vivian Gornick

Book Overview

Gornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate relationship between emotional damage and great literature.

Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled the theme of love and marriage in her last collection of essays, The End of the Novel of Love, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026207303X
• ISBN13: 9780262073035
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.7" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher