| Description |
viii, 328 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-324) and index. |
| Contents |
Toni Morrison : The bluest eye -- Russell Banks : Affliction -- E. A. Proulx : The shipping news -- Jay McInerney : Bright lights, big city -- Barbara Kingsolver : The bean trees -- John Dufresne : Louisiana Power & Light -- Bobbie Ann Mason : In country -- Jayne Anne Phillips : Machine dreams -- Jane Smiley : A thousand acres -- Alice Walker : The color purple -- Cormac McCarthy : Blood meridian -- E. A. Proulx : Close range -- Sherman Alexie : The Lone-Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven -- Tim O'Brien : Northern lights -- Donald Antrim : Elect Mr. Robinson for a better world -- E. L. Doctorow : Ragtime -- Don DeLillo : White noise -- Don DeLillo : Mao II -- Don DeLillo : Underworld -- Po Bronson : Bombardiers -- Gish Jen : Typical American -- Chang-rae Lee : Native speaker -- John Edgar Wideman : Philadelphia fire -- Paul Auster : The New York trilogy -- Barry Hannah : High lonesome -- Richard Ford : The sportwriter -- William Kennedy : Billy Phelan's greatest game - Leonard Gardner : Fat city -- Don DeLillo : End zone -- Robert Coover : The Universal Baseball Association, inc. J. Henry Waugh, Prop. -- John Updike : Memories of the Ford administration -- Philip Roth : American pastoral -- E. L. Doctorow : Billy Bathgate -- Louise Erdrich : Tales of burning love. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0198711786 |
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