By Alfred Bendixen
That includes 37 essays via unique literary students, A significant other to the yank Novel presents a finished single-volume remedy of the improvement of the radical within the usa from the past due 18th century to the current day.
- Represents the main complete single-volume creation to this well known literary shape at present to be had
- Features 37 contributions from quite a lot of extraordinary literary students
- Includes essays on subject matters and genres, old overviews, and key person works, together with The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, the nice Gatsby, Beloved, and lots of extra.
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P. Donleavy A Singular Man William Goyen The Fair Sister Ross Macdonald (Kenneth Millar) The Chill Chronology of the American Novel Mary McCarthy The Group Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar Thomas Pynchon V John Rechy City of Night Clifford D. Simak Here Gather the Stars (Hugo Award) John Updike The Centaur Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Cat’s Cradle Richard Wright Lawd Today 1964 Louis Auchincloss The Rector of Justin Saul Bellow Herzog Thomas Berger Little Big Man Richard Brautigan A Confederate General from Big Sur John Cheever The Wapshot Scandal Shirley Ann Grau Keepers of the House (Pulitzer Prize) John Hawkes Second Skin Christopher Isherwood A Single Man Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion Richard E.
Burnett The Asphalt Jungle Walter Van Tilburg Clark The Track of the Cat John Dos Passos The Grand Design A. B. P. Marquand Point of No Return John O’Hara A Rage to Live Elmer Rice The Show Must Go On Jack Schaefer Shane George R. Stewart Earth Abides xlv xlvi Chronology of the American Novel 1950 Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles William Goyen The House of Breath Ernest Hemingway Across the River and into the Trees John Hersey The Wall Patricia Highsmith Strangers on a Train Budd Schulberg The Disenchanted Isaac Bashevis Singer The Family Moskat Wallace Stegner The Preacher and the Slave (Joe Hill) Robert Penn Warren World Enough and Time Tennessee Williams The Roman Spring of Mrs.
E. L. Doctorow Ragtime William Gaddis J. R. Gayl Jones Corregidora William Kennedy Legs Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior Jerzy Kosinski Cockpit John D. MacDonald The Dreadful Lemon Sky Peter Mattheisen Far Tortuga Larry McMurtry Terms of Endearment Milton Murayama All I Asking For is My Body Reynolds Price The Surface of the Earth James Purdy In a Shallow Grave Judith Rossner Looking for Mr. Goodbar Joanna Russ The Female Man John Updike A Month of Sundays Joseph Wambaugh The Choirboys Larry Woiwode Beyond the Bedroom Wall 1976 Renata Adler Speedboat Lisa Alther Kinflicks Rudolfo Anaya Heart of Aztlan Ann Beattie Chilly Scenes of Winter Pat Conroy The Great Santini Don De Lillo Ratner’s Star Stanley Elkin The Franchiser John Gardner October Light Gael Greene Blue Skies, No Candy Alex Haley Roots John Hawkes Travesty Will Henry I, Tom Horn Gayl Jones Eva’s Man Gregory McDonald Confess, Fletch Marge Piercy Woman on the Edge of Time Frederik Pohl Man Plus (Nebula Award) Ishmael Reed Flight to Canada Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Wallace Stegner The Spectator Bird Gore Vidal 1876 Chronology of the American Novel 1976 John Updike Marry Me Leon Uris Trinity Alice Walker Meridian Kate Wilhelm Where Late the Sweet Birds Sing (Hugo Award) 1977 Thomas Berger Who is Teddy Villanueva Hortense Calisher On Keeping Women John Cheever Falconer Robert Coover The Public Burning Nicholas Delbanco Possession Joan Didion A Book of Common Prayer J.