| Edition |
[1st ed.]. |
| Description |
xx, 303 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Part One -- 1. The politics of reviewing -- 2. Genius or nothing / Norman Mailer -- 3. The last gentlemen / Walker Percy -- 4. Go to the window maker / James Jones -- 5. Couples / John Updike -- 6. Reflections upon a sinking ship / Gore Vidal -- 7. Orchids for Miss Hightower -- 8. Collected short prose of James Agee -- 9. Picture of fidekman / Bernard Malamud -- 10. The artist as blimp -- 11. Racing the clock with Greene & Pritchett -- 12. Tell me how long the train's been gone / James Baldwin -- 13. The universal baseball association / Robert Coover -- 14. The confessions of nat turner / William Styron -- Part Two -- 1. Confessions of a sports nut -- 2. The good old days in California -- 3. The politician as professor / Eugene MaCarthy -- Part Three -- 1. The kitchen -- 2. An evening's frost -- 3. Sade / Marat -- 4. The glass menagerie -- 5. The seven descents of myrtle -- 6. Inadmissible evidence -- 7. Hughie -- 8. Baker street -- 9. A delicate balance -- 10. A view from the bridge -- 11. Theater revisited -- 12. Theater 1980 -- Part Four -- 1. Blow-up -- 2. La Guerre est Finie -- 3. Person -- 4. On violence -- 5. How I won the war / Cinema Verite / Les Carabiniers -- 6. In cold blood -- 7. The hippie / The stranger -- 8. The hour of the wolf -- 9. Young torless / Therese and Isabelle -- 10. Chicago / Weekend -- 11. The birthday party -- 12. The fixer / The charge of the light brigade / Greeting -- Part Five -- 1. The minor novelist -- 2. Private Chambers v. Public Chamers -- 3. The lie / Alberto Moravia -- 4. Baby, it's cold inside / S. J. Perelman -- 5. Chesterbelloc -- 6. Slaughterhouse-five / Kurt Vonnegut -- 7. The pyramid / William Golding -- 8. Making it / Norman Podhoretz -- 9. Incubus / Giuseppe Berto -- 10. The red and the green / Iris Murdoch -- 11. The writing condition |
| ISBN |
0374213054 |
|
9780374213053 |
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