It takes the average reader 3 hours and 25 minutes to read Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 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 and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's...
Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick is 203 pages long, and a total of 51,359 words.
This makes it 69% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 40 minutes to read Fierce Attachments aloud.
Fierce Attachments is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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