Fierce Attachments Audiobook Libro.fm

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In this deeply etched and haunting memoir Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence Gornicks groundbreaking book confronts what Edna OBrien has called the principal crux of female despair the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the motherdaughter bond

Born and raised in the Bronx the daughter of urban peasants Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mothers romantic depression over the early death of her husband Next door lives Nettie an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian These women with their opposing models of femininity continue well into adulthood to affect Gornicks struggle to find herself in love and in work

As Gornick walks with her aged mother through the streets of New York arguing and remembering the past each wins the listeners admiration the caustic and clearthinking daughter for her courage and tenacity in really talking to her mother about the most basic issues of their lives and the still powerful and intuitivelywise old woman who again and again proves herself her daughters mother