The New American Novel of Manners: The Fiction of Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane by Jerome Klinkowitz

The New American Novel of Manners: The Fiction of Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane

Jerome Klinkowitz

190 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary challenging reflective medium-paced
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In the 1960s, as the underpinnings of society weakened, the traditional novel form seemed less suited to describe American reality. Theorists groped towards non-mimetic fiction as the tools that had sustained the novel since its birth--coherent ch...

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