The Odd Woman and the City

‘A slim book with big echoes … She is as good a writer about friendship as we have.’ New York Times ‘An elusive and stirring memoir.’ Los Angeles Times ‘A series of sharply observed vignettes.‘New Yorker ‘Typically lucid … startling.’ Guardian

Vivian Gornick is the author of numerous books, including the acclaimed memoir Fierce Attachments, named the best memoir of the past 50 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 nominated 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.