Download or read book The End of the Novel of Love written by Vivian Gornick and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.