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Bright book of life: American novelists and storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer.
- Title
- Bright book of life: American novelists and storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer.
- Author
- Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998
- Publication
- Boston, Little, Brown [1973]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS379 .K25 1973 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Jewish American Writers NjP
- Description
- 334 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Examines American fiction from the 1940's to the 1970's.
- Series Statement
- An Atlantic Monthly Press book
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."
- gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of President Harold T. Shapiro.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: page.
- Contents
- A dream of order: Hemingway -- The secret of the south: Faulkner to Percy -- The decline of war: Mailer to Vonnegut -- Professional observers: Cozzens to Updike -- The earthly city of the Jews: Bellow to Singer -- Cassandras: Porter to Oates -- The imagination of fact: Capote to Mailer -- Absurdity as a contemporary style: Ellison to Pynchon -- A personal sense of time: Nabokov and other exiles.
- ISBN
- 0316484180
- 9780316484183
- 0268006644
- 9780268006648
- LCCN
- 72013748
- OCLC
- ocm00533639
- 533639
- SCSB-8779109
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library