

Unfinished Business
Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
Author: Vivian Gornick
Narrator: Vivian Gornick
Unabridged: 4 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 02/04/2020
Author: Vivian Gornick
Narrator: Vivian Gornick
Unabridged: 4 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 02/04/2020
Vivian Gornick is the author of several acclaimed books, including Fierce Attachments, named the best memoir of the past fifty years by the New York Times Book Review in 2019; the essay collections The End of the Novel of Love and The Men in My Life, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism; and The Odd Woman and the City, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She began her career as a staff writer for the Village Voice in 1969, and her work has since appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, the New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, and many other publications.
“Wry, incisive and characteristically captivating, Gornick’s latest book is a tribute to the value of returning to the same authors at different points in one’s life.” New York Times Book Review
“Vivacious and highly recommended.” Washington Post
“A commitment to class consciousness, cultural politics, gender, and close reading—not only of literature but of daily human relationships.” Los Angeles Review of Books
“Part memoir, part feminist literary analysis, and wholly engaging.” Columbia Journal
“Gornick recognizes that in [an] initial encounter, one might not be emotionally ready to appreciate a work fully but with each rereading will recognize a new literary element or better understand a particular protagonist no matter how many times the book has been perused before. A delightful entry for lovers of literature and literary criticism.” Library Journal (starred review)
“Literature knows few champions as ardent and insightful—or as uncompromising—as Gornick, which is to readers’ good fortune.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Through steady, sculpted prose and elegant readings, Gornick concludes the work of great literature is less about ‘the transporting pleasure of the story itself’ than revealing readers to themselves…The insights in this rich work will be appreciated by Gornick fans and bibliophiles alike.” Publishers Weekly