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

• Autore: Rennison Nick
• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : A. & C. Black, , 2010; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (188 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.009
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - History and criticism
• Persona (resp. second.): WoodEd
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: 100 must-read American novels
• ISBN: 1-282-96039-3; 9786612960390; 1-4081-3091-2; 1-4081-3601-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807793103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Bloomsbury good reading guides.