| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xv, 505 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"Talk Miramax books." |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
On Masculinity and Related Questions: Iron John. Movie Violence. Thatcher, Lincoln, Hillary Clinton. The End of Nature. Elvis Presley and Andy Warhol. Nuclear Weapons. Writing About Sex -- Some English Prose: V.S. Pritchett. Angus Wilson. Iris Murdoch. J.G. Ballard. Anthony Burgess. C.P. Snow, Brian Aldiss, Cyril Connolly, Fay Weldon, John Fowles. D.M. Thomas -- Philip Larkin -- From the Canon: Coleridge. Jane Austen. Milton. Dickens. Donne. Waugh and Wodehouse. Malcolm Lowry -- Popularity Contest: Robert B. Parker: Chandler Prolonged. Michael Crichton. Elmore Leonard. Tom Wolfe. Thomas Harris -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Some American Prose: Norman Mailer. Gore Vidal. Philip Roth. William Burroughs. Kurt Vonnegut. Truman Capote. Don DeLillo. Saul Bellow -- Obsessions and Curiosities: Chess. Football. Poker. World Records. Modern Humour -- John Updike -- Ultramundane: World Literature. Zamyatin. Kafka. Shiva Naipaul A Journey in Ladakh. V.S. Naipaul -- Great Books: Don Quixote. Pride and Prejudice. Ulysses. The Adventures of Augie March. Lolita. |
| Subject |
Books -- Reviews.
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Books. |
| Genre/Form |
Reviews.
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Reviews.
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| ISBN |
0786866748 |
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9780786866748 |
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