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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785401603321

Autore

Rennison Nick

Titolo

100 must-read American novels / / Nick Rennison, Ed Wood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : A. & C. Black, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-96039-3

9786612960390

1-4081-3091-2

1-4081-3601-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guides

Disciplina

813.009

Soggetti

American fiction - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About This Book; Introduction; A-Z of Entries; Altered States (Drink and Drugs); Short Stories; Down These Mean Streets (The American Detective); The American Civil War; Future Americas and Alternative Americas; Small Town America; The Jewish Experience; The West; New York through the Decades; Up from Slavery (African-American fiction); Deep South; Hooray for Hollywood?

Sommario/riassunto

Which 100 novels represent the finest American literature ever produced? Let this book be your guide. Ordered A-Z by author this latest title in the popular Must-Read series provides a rich resource for your reading. It features 100 titles from 19th century classics: Melville's Moby Dick and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, to the 1920s generation: Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner, the Beat generation (Kerouac's On the Road) to the major writers of today: Toni Morrison (Beloved) Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay), Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections), D