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From the moment that his debut book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), won him the National Book Award, Philip Roth has been among the most influential and controversial writers of our age. Now the author of more than twenty novels, numerous stories, two memoirs, and two books of literary criticism, Roth has used his writing to continually reinvent himself and in doing so to remake the American literary landscape. This Companion provides the most comprehensive...
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What happened in Spanish American fiction after the Boom? Can we define the Post-Boom? What are its characteristics? How does it relate to the Boom itself? Is Post-Boom the same as Postmodernism or something quite different? Shaw traces the emergence of a different kind of writing that began to displace the Boom in the mid-1970s and has flourished ever since. More reader-friendly, more concerned with the here and now of Latin America, the writers...
11) Collected works
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Prose and poetry by an experimental writer. In Patagoni, he writes: "the indians liked to pick a spectacular spot and then get just behind it--para occultar--this true, certainly of machu picchu, probably chavin & san agustin / yesterday the filthy train from Machu Picchu--today Aviacion Fawcett DC-4 to Lima--life here, like the mountains is tilted, faulted and stratified."
15) William Goldman
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Critically examines the drama and fiction of William Goldman, the contemporary writer and teacher best known for Boys and Girls Together and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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Comprised of memorable passages from novels written by American writers between 1920 and 1945. Contains contributions by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pearl Buck, Thomas Wolfe, E.E. Cummings, Edna Ferber, William Faulkner, Theadore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, John Hersey, John Steinbeck, Charles Jackson, Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson and others.
18) Hound-dog man
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A regional story told in the first person by twelve-year-old Cotton Kinney of northern Texas, whose hunting trip with a local bachelor hero brings him a much desired dog and the sight of his friend, Blackie Scantling, being secured by the girl who should have him ... Dialect yarn."
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