Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader

Vivian Gornick has been a reader and a rereader all her life.

“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.”

In this book, she closely looks at her reads and rereads of notable books that impacted her life—-Sons and Lovers, the books of Colette, Jude the Obscure, A Month in the Country, the works of Elizabeth Bowen, The Lover, among others—-and compares how her rereads brought her a richer experience, a truer experience each time she indulged.