![]() ![]() The “odd” in the title, a nod to Gissing’s The Odd Woman, is partly synonymous with being childless and unmarried (the odd one out), and it’s partly a badge of honour and a gift of freedom that has been earned. In her latest book, The Odd Woman and the City, Gornick tackles the subjects of friendship and solitude, using her “continuous I” style that encompasses a wide range of genres in a way that calls to mind her existing body of work while extending the narrative into its new thesis. It might just be me, since I recognise so much of my own family’s history in her work, but I immediately felt a closeness to her as if she were my own mother having a heart-to-heart about her life, and in doing so, revealing to me my own life, and by implication, the nature of humanity. ![]() Vivian Gornick is a master at blurring the boundaries between time and space, literature and life, and narrator and reader. ![]()
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