![]() But I’m glad I lived long enough to see it.” Except that now I do have some money, I realise it was a weight on me.” But the new wave of interest in her work has, nevertheless, come as a complete surprise: “I don’t really understand why it has happened. “I lived from hand to mouth for 40 years, and I never cared that much about it. “It’s true,” she says, astonishment just at the edge of her voice. ![]() She was 51 when she published the book that finally made her name in 1987 ( Fierce Attachments, a memoir about her relationship with her mother it was described by the New York Times last year as the best memoir of the past half century), and only now does she find herself, for the first time in her life, financially solvent. ![]() Vivian Gornick should be used to things happening later than expected. ![]()
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