In The Odd Woman and the City , to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in May, Vivian Gornick writes of the "shock of pleasure" she gets each evening as she gazes from her 16th-floor apartment in Greenwich Village at "the banks of lighted windows rising to the sky, crowding round me... [I] feel myself embraced." Today, however, a massive construction project embraces most of the sidewalk facing her building, and her conversation is punctuated by the pounding of jackhammers.
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