Fierce Attachments : A Memoir Condition:Good if not impossible

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By following a group of four contemporary girls - including her younger self - as they come of age in the seventies

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and put her family—and herself—in mortal danger

Fierce Attachments : A Memoir Condition:Good if not impossibleIn this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the prinicpal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother daughter bond. Born