![]() ![]() ![]() The specific data of her personal history notwithstanding, Gornick’s story is a generic, timeless one: the Search for a Self, for a bounded identity. Gornick has written a private reminiscence, with the thinnest patina of structure, yet the vividness of her style and the honesty of her perception are such that they infuse her account with the force of parable. Brimming with life, with what the author describes as “a kind of idiot attention to the look and feel of things,” it is a sustained close-up of a mother-daughter relationship-that much examined, deified, and excoriated arrangement of birth in which all women find themselves. Fierce Attachments,” the somewhat literal, even clinical-sounding title of Vivian Gornick’s memoir, is a book that will leave its readers anything but dispassionate. ![]()
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