Diana of the Crossways -- Clover Adams -- Kate Chopin -- Jean Rhys -- Ruthless intimacies -- Willa Cather -- Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger -- Christina Stead -- Grace Paley -- Tenderhearted men -- The end of the novel of love
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In this book of new and collected critical essays, Vivian Gornick turns the searching intelligence and honesty of insight that mark her memoirs on the work - and the lives - of writers she admires, among them Jean Rhys, Willa Cather, Christina Stead, and George Meredith. In doing so, she examines a century of novels of love-in-the-Western-world and comes to see that, for most writers, it is the drama of our angry and frightened selves in the presence of love that is our modern preoccupation