by Vivian Gornick · SEXTO PISO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416677399
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«Apegos feroces» is Vivian Gornick's memoir, published by Sexto Piso in paperback (200 pages, in Spanish).
On walks through Manhattan with her elderly mother, full of reproaches, memories and complicity, the author reconstructs their relationship and her struggle to find her place in the world. Two opposing female models, her mother and the neighbor Nettie, shaped her way of relating to men, work and other women.
First Spanish edition in 2017; translation by Daniel Ramos Sánchez and prologue by Jonathan Lethem. Original in English: «Fierce Attachments» (1987).
For readers of memoirs and nonfiction interested in relationships between women, mother-daughter bonds and urban life in New York.
Vivian Gornick is an American radical feminist critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist.
