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When she picks the book up years later, she is struck by the main character’s desire to not “be a casualty anymore.” He has found what he hoped would be a path to healing from the shocks of battle, but the peace he sometimes experiences at his work does not lead to human connection or purpose.
Feb 4, 2020 · Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism, memoir, and biography, one of our most celebrated critics writes about the importance of reading ...
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Feb 4, 2020 · In “Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader,” the revered memoirist makes an urgent argument for the value of returning to a book you’ve already read.
Feb 2, 2021 · Gornick’s new book is part memoiristic collage, part literary criticism, yet it is also an urgent argument that rereading offers the opportunity not just to correct and adjust one’s recollection of a book but to correct and adjust one’s perception of oneself . . .
Feb 4, 2020 · Guided by Gornick’s trademark verve and insight, Unfinished Business is a masterful appreciation of literature’s power to illuminate our lives from a peerless writer and thinker who “still read[s] to feel the power of Life with a capital L.”
1 day ago · Blyth Spartans have announced that a deal has been agreed for a group led by local businessman Martin Trinder to take over the club. Earlier this month, the club's chairman Irfan Liaquat revealed ...
Tim at a conference years ago. Tim said he would tell people to book him instead of Tim. He did. They became colleagues and friends. David sees that as one of the greatest honours of his life and hopes this book repays that to some small extent. Rosemary Campbell-Stephens, MBE Rosemary Campbell-Stephens is an international speaker, author and con-
