{"product_id":"the-end-of-the-novel-of-love-isbn-9780807062234","title":"The End of The Novel of Love","description":"Offers powerful insight into the portrayal of romantic love by Jean  Rhys, Clover Adams, Christina Stead, Willa Cather, Grace Paley, Raymond  Carver, Andre Dubus, and others.Reading [Gornick] is a thrilling, invigorating, challenging experience. -Barbara Fisher, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Sunday Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vivian Gornick's prose is so penetrating that reading it can be almost painful. . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe End of the Novel of Love\u003c\/i\u003e]-in which she examines various connections between love and literature-stands out as a model of luminous clarity.\" -Susie Linfield, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Gornick] is fearless. . . . Grounded as she is in the moral breadth, psychological acuity, esthetic sophistication and infinite sense of life we expect from good novels and good readers alike, Gornick can listen to what a pair of old married friends casually say to each other over dinner in a Chinese restaurant and detect change in the Zeitgeist. . . . Reading her essays, one is reassured that the conversation between life and literature is mutually sustaining as well as mutually corrective, and that it is likely to continue both in spite of and because of our changes of heart-in love or out of it.\" -Elizabeth Frank, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe End of the Novel of Love\u003c\/i\u003e is small in bulk but large in implication. The book is a pleasure and a stimulus: persuasive, finely wrought, quivering with intelligence.\" -George Scialabba, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003eVivian Gornick, \"one of the most vital and indispensable essayists of our cultural moment\" (Phillip Lopate), has been widely acclaimed for her two books of memoir, \u003ci\u003eFierce Attachments\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eApproaching Eye Level\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York City.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301815537893,"sku":"NP9780807062234","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807062234_05401b8f-30a2-41a8-89e3-85feb79d6efb.jpg?v=1742925176","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-end-of-the-novel-of-love-isbn-9780807062234","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}