The Odd Woman and the City, Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick’s The Odd Woman and the City moves to the tempo of the streets it adores. It bustles, it pulses, it strides ahead and falls back; it marches and dances, hops from neighbourhood to neighbourhood, from square to park to station. Then there’s the people, the stream of faces that pass through, the characters that we encounter once, maybe twice, maybe never again, that form a collage of vignettes as much about human nature as it is about urban life. This is an eccentric, fragmented, witty homage to the most iconic city in America’s cultural fabric: New York.

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