{"product_id":"odd-woman-and-the-city-pb","title":"The Odd Woman and the City","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Vivian Gornick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sharp, intimate memoir of life, solitude and friendship in New York City, capturing the rhythms of urban existence and the inner life of a fiercely independent woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEvery night when I turn the lights out in my sixteenth-floor living room before I go to bed, I experience a shock of pleasure as I see the banks of lighted windows rising to the sky, crowding round me, and feel myself embraced by the anonymous ingathering of city dwellers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in New York,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Odd Woman and the City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplores the rhythms, chance meetings, and ever-changing relationships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city that has done the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRunning steadily through the book is Vivian Gornick’s animated exchange of more than twenty years with her best friend Leonard, as well as interactions with grocers, doormen, people on the bus, cross-dressers on the corner, and acquaintances by the handful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA narrative collage that includes meditative pieces on the evolution of friendship over the past two centuries, in this memoir we encounter Gornick’s rich relationship with the ultimate metropolis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Full of acid-sharp observations about the ambivalence of life and love in the big city.’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A glinting account of one woman’s peripatetic relationship with that fabled place . . . I loved this book.’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘The renowned US writer’s 2015 essay about wandering the streets of New York has lost none of its sparkle.’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGuardian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A slim book with big echoes . . . She is as good a writer about friendship as we have.’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘An elusive and stirring memoir.’\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A series of sharply observed vignettes.’\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDate published: 2 May 2016\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349009001\u003cbr\u003eNumber of pages: 176\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: approx. 198 x 129 mm\u003cbr\u003eWeight: approx. 180 g\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Every Space","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57393188176255,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/2589\/9289\/files\/the_odd-Woman_and_the_city.jpg?v=1776896162","url":"https:\/\/www.theeveryspace.com\/products\/odd-woman-and-the-city-pb","provider":"The Every Space","version":"1.0","type":"link"}