The End of The Novel of Love

offers Powerful Insight Into The Portrayal Of Romantic Love By Jean Rhys, Clover Adams, Christina Stead, Willa Cather, Grace Paley, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, And Others. gornick Makes Forceful And Dramatic Judgments. . . . She Is Fearless. -elizabeth Frank, The New York Times Book Review new York Times Book Review - Elizabeth Frank reading Her Essays, One Is Reassured That The Conversation Between Life And Literature Is Mutually Sustaining As Well As Mutually Corrective. 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.