THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY

A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encoun ters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her c onflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same. Running steadily through the book is Vivian Gornick's exch ange of more than twenty years with Leonard, a gay man who is sophisticated about his own unhappiness, whose friendship has shed mor e light ...[Leer más]