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Title: End of the Novel of Love, The
Author: GORNICK VIVIAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 04/02/2020
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
In <i>The End of the Novel of Love</i>, an acclaimed and provocative collection of criticism, Gornick applies the same intelligence, honesty, and insight that define her memoirs to an analysis of love and marriage as literary themes in the twentieth century. She examines the work and lives of several authors she admires—including Grace Paley, Willa Cather, Jean Rhys, George Meredith, Jane Smiley, Richard Ford, and Andre Dubus—to ultimately posit that love, sexual fulfillment, and marriage are now exhausted as the metaphorical expressions of success and happiness.
Spanning the depths of common experience and the expanse of twentieth century literature, Gornick crafts an argument that is as defined by discourse as it is by the power of her language, which is gracefully poised between objective knowledge and subjective experience. In these eleven essays, she comes to see that, for most writers, like most readers, it is the drama of our angry and frightened selves in the presence of love that is our modern preoccupation. <i>The End of the Novel of Love</i> is a strikingly original and thought-provoking collection from a canonical critic.
• National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
ISBN: 9780374538262
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 208mm X 135mm
Pages: 176
Edition: 01