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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
by Gornick, Vivian
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- ISBN 13
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Verso, London, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 288 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing writing from the course of her career, Taking a Long Look illuminates one of the driving themes behind Gornick's work: that the painful process of understanding one's self is what binds us to the larger world. In these essays, Gornick explores the lives and literature of Alfred Kazin, Mary McCarthy, Diana Trilling, Philip Roth, Joan Didion, and Herman Melville; the cultural impact of Silent Spring and Uncle Tom's Cabin; and the characters you might only find in a New York barber shop or midtown bus terminal. Even more, Taking a Long Look brings back into print her incendiary essays, first published in the Village Voice, championing the emergence of the women's liberation movement of the 1970s. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; United States; Modern; Women & Feminism. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781788739771. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10203. . 9781788739771
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- Great Southern Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10203
- Title
- Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
- Author
- Gornick, Vivian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1788739779
- ISBN 13
- 9781788739771
- Publisher
- Verso
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2021
- Keywords
- BZDB137 vivian gornick, essays, literature, literary criticism, culture, politics, feminism Essays & Literary Criticism; United States; Modern; Women & Feminism. Unbranded EAN: 9781788739771 Gornick, Vivian Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture,
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