The Odd Woman and the City
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A contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spirit of Fierce Attachments
A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same.
Running steadily through the book is Vivian Gornick’s exchange of more than 20 years with Leonard, a gay man who is sophisticated about his own unhappiness, whose friendship has “shed more light on the mysterious nature of ordinary human relations than has any other intimacy” she has known. The exchange between Gornick and Leonard acts as a Greek chorus to the main action of the narrator’s continual engagement on the street with grocers, derelicts, and doormen; people on the bus, cross-dressers on the corner, and acquaintances by the handful. In Leonard, she sees herself reflected plain; out on the street, she makes sense of what she sees.
Written as a narrative collage that includes meditative pieces on the making of a modern feminist, the role of the flaneur in urban literature, and the evolution of friendship over the past two centuries, The Odd Woman and the City beautifully bookends Gornick’s acclaimed Fierce Attachments, in which we first encountered her rich relationship with the ultimate metropolis.
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Loved it! Amazing, deep and at times just common sense perspectives on life and the things most just don't see or can't express. Enjoyed it immensely!
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- Judith
- 04-16-21
Thank you for bringing me back home
Dear Ms Gornik,
As an expat of 40 years I was transported back to the city that molded me that I continue to call home.
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- 03-27-25
The great writing. the textures of the people and the streets of New York. Excellent and Thank You. Walking for Life..in NYC
Vivian Gornick ..A book that is heart felt . Every page draws you in...and wanting more. The textures of the people..the Places..
Worth the read..and once again did not want the book to end.
Thank You.
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- Lo
- 01-14-23
Yet another Gornick masterpiece
As an aspiring flâneuse living in New York City, I can’t get enough of Vivian’s work.
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