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Format:

Book

Author:

Hardwick, Elizabeth.

Title:

Sight-readings : American fictions / Elizabeth Hardwick.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

284 pages ; 22 cm

Summary:

Discusses Edith Wharton, Margaret Fuller, Gertrude Stein, John Cheever, John Updike, Philip Roth, Joan Didion, Richard Ford, Katherine Anne Porter, Edmund Wilson, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop, Nadine Gordimer, Djuna Barnes, and Henry James.

Subjects:

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation.

James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Barnes, Djuna -- Criticism and interpretation.

Cheever, John -- Criticism and interpretation.

Updike, John -- Criticism and interpretation.

Roth, Philip -- Criticism and interpretation.

Didion, Joan -- Criticism and interpretation.

Ford, Richard -- Criticism and interpretation.

Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Mailer, Norman -- Criticism and interpretation.

McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Gordimer, Nadine -- Criticism and interpretation.

American literature -- History and criticism.

Authors, American -- Biography.

United States -- Civilization.

Notes:

Also issued online.

Contents:

Mrs. Wharton in New York -- On Washington Square -- The genius of Margaret Fuller -- Gertrude Stein -- The fate of the gifted -- Cheever, or, The ambiguities -- Citizen Updike -- Paradise lost : Philip Roth -- In the wasteland : Joan Didion -- Reckless people : Richard Ford -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Wind from the prairie -- Edmund Wilson -- Norman Mailer : the teller and the tape -- Mary McCarthy in New York -- The magical prose of poets : Elizabeth Bishop -- Tru confessions -- Something out there : Nadine Gordimer.

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Publisher description

LCCN:

97038412

ISBN:

9780375501272

0375501274

Other Number:

37721313

System Availability:

1

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0

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1

Control Number:

61488

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Call Number:

810.9 Hardwick