The End of the Novel of Love

Vivian Gornick

Original title: The end of the novel of love

first published 1997 Beacon Press, 1997 165 pages

In this book of new and collected critical essays, Vivian Gornick turns the searching intelligence and honesty of insight that mark her memoirs on the work - and the lives - of writers she admires, among them Jean Rhys, Willa Cather, Christina Stead, and George Meredith. In doing so, she examines a century of novels of love-in-the-Western-world and comes to see that, for most writers, it is the drama of our angry and...

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El fin de la novela de amor paperback · 2022 · Narrativa · 9788419261175
The End of the Novel of Love paperback · 2020 · Picador · 176 pages · 9780374538262
End of the Novel of Love edition · 2020 · Picador · 9780374719890
The End of the Novel of Love audiobook · 2019 · Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio · 9781978666443
End of the Novel of Love edition · 1999 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 176 pages · 9781860496462
End of the Novel of Love edition · 1998 · Beacon Press · 9780807062234
The end of the novel of love edition · 1997 · Beacon Press · 165 pages

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