| Description |
xvii, 263 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Disillusion and seperate peace -- Exile -- Hemingway: "Nightmare and the correlative of loss" -- Fitzgerald: "The horror and the vision of paradise" -- Dos Passos: "The energy of despair" -- The search for values -- The Neo-Hemingways: "and the failure of protest" -- Vance Bourjaily: "The two worlds of Skinner Galt" -- Mailer, Burns, and Shaw: "the naked zero" -- Merle Miller: "Journalist of sham" -- Gore Vidal: "The search for a king" -- Paul Bowles: "The canceled Sky" -- Capote and Beuchner: "The escape into otherness" -- The young writers in America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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