Vivian Gornick
Vivian Gornick
Gornick, Vivian
Reading Date: Wednesday, February 14, 1990
Full Reading-13182
Description:
Introduction by Lois Shelton.
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Reading Date: Wednesday, February 14, 1990
Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
Vivian Gornick reads from Fierce Attachments (1987), a memoir of the author's past and present relationship with her mother. This University of Arizona Creative Writing faculty reading was originally given with Mary Elsie Robertson.
- family
- memory
- memoir
- adolescence
- identity
- walking
- women
- sex
- anger
- violence
- mother
- motherhood
- neighbors
- daughters
- marriage
- relationships
- new york
- abuse
- friendship
- childhood
- college
- ethnicity
- rape
- conversation
- mothers
- remembering
- non-fiction
- first person
- personal history
- manhattan
- jewish
- conflict
- school
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