The End of the Novel of Love by Vivian Gornick

Author:Vivian Gornick
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
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ISBN: 9780807062234
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2010-08-27T04:00:00+00:00

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She was born in 1873 in Virginia, into a family of highly literate country people (both grandmothers knew Latin and Greek), people who took as their birthright the idea that it was civilized to be educated and have a sense of culture; and that to be civilized was the highest good. When she was nine years old, the family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska. The father proved a disastrous farmer. After a year on the open plain, the family took a house in town. Mr. Cather became an insurance agent. The children grew up healthy, loving, competitive. Everyone knew Willa's intelligence was remarkable, and when the time came, she was sent to the state university at Lincoln. In Lincoln she distinguished herself as a brilliant eccentric. She was a large girl, ungainly and overdirect; a passionate reader and talker with unreliable social skills, often blurting out some indiscreet bit of scorn. One other thing about her made people apprehensive. She seemed to develop huge crushes on womenclassmates, acquaintances, faculty wivesthat were intense and long-lasting. The object of her necessity would inevitably demur,

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