{"product_id":"book-dgpp","title":"Unfinished Business","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I sometimes think I was born reading…I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader\u003c\/em\u003e is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism, memoir, and biography, one of our most celebrated critics writes about the importance of reading—and re-reading—as life progresses. Gornick finds herself in contradictory characters within D. H. Lawrence’s \u003cem\u003eSons and Lovers\u003c\/em\u003e, assesses womanhood in Colette’s \u003cem\u003eThe Vagabond\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Shackle\u003c\/em\u003e, and considers the veracity of memory in Marguerite Duras’s \u003cem\u003eThe Lover\u003c\/em\u003e. She revisits Great War novels by J. L. Carr and Pat Barker, uncovers the psychological complexity of Elizabeth Bowen’s prose, and soaks in Natalia Ginzburg, “a writer whose work has often made me love life more.” After adopting two cats, whose erratic behavior she finds vexing, she discovers Doris Lessing’s \u003cem\u003eParticularly Cats\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuided by Gornick’s trademark verve and insight, \u003cem\u003eUnfinished Business\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterful appreciation of literature’s power to illuminate our lives from a peerless writer and thinker who “still read[s] to feel the power of Life with a capital L.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49292901450032,"sku":"BDdgpp","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49292901482800,"sku":"ZEdgpp","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49292901515568,"sku":"ZMdgpp","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/325129-dgpp-Square.jpg?v=1732856165","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dgpp","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}