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Unfinished Business audiobook
- By: Vivian Gornick
- Narrator: Vivian Gornick
- Category: Books & Reading, Literary Criticism
- Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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Unfinished Business Audiobook Summary
One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.
“I sometimes think I was born reading…I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.”
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism, memoir, and biography, one of our most celebrated critics writes about the importance of reading–and re-reading–as life progresses. Gornick finds herself in contradictory characters within D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers, assesses womanhood in Colette’s The Vagabond and The Shackle, and considers the veracity of memory in Marguerite Duras’s The Lover. She revisits Great War novels by J. L. Carr and Pat Barker, uncovers the psychological complexity of Elizabeth Bowen’s prose, and soaks in Natalia Ginzburg, “a writer whose work has often made me love life more.” After adopting two cats, whose erratic behavior she finds vexing, she discovers Doris Lessing’s Particularly Cats.
Guided by Gornick’s trademark verve and insight, Unfinished Business is a masterful appreciation of literature’s power to illuminate our lives from a peerless writer and thinker who “still read[s] to feel the power of Life with a capital L.”
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Unfinished Business Audiobook Narrator
Vivian Gornick is the narrator of Unfinished Business audiobook that was written by Vivian Gornick
Vivian Gornick is the author of several acclaimed books, including Fierce Attachments, named the best memoir of the past fifty years by the New York Times Book Review in 2019; the essay collections The End of the Novel of Love and The Men in My Life, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism; and The Odd Woman and the City, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She began her career as a staff writer for the Village Voice in 1969, and her work has since appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, the New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, and many other publications.
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Unfinished Business Full Details
| Narrator | Vivian Gornick |
| Length | 4 hours 27 minutes |
| Author | Vivian Gornick |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 19, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781094065069 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Unfinished Business is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Books & Reading, Literary Criticism
Additional info
The publisher of the Unfinished Business is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781094065069.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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