| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
xx, 265 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [257]-262. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
Introductions / Nona Balakian and Charles Simmons -- James Baldwin and two footnotes / by Harvey Breit -- Ah, buddy : Salinger / by Donald Burr -- The fabulist's worlds: Vladimir Nabokov / by Alan Pryce-Jones -- McCullers and Capote / by Mark Schorer -- The American individualist tradition: Bellow and Styron / by Robert Graham Davis -- The radical moralism of Norman Mailer / by Diana Trilling -- The worlds of love: the fiction of Eudora Welty / by Alun R. Jones -- James Jones and Jack Kerouac: novelists of disjunction / by David L. Stevenson -- Generations of the fifties: Malamud, Gold and Updike / by Granville Hicks -- The novels of Mary McCarthy / by John Chamberlain -- Bibliographies -- Contributors. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Simmons, Charles, 1924-2017
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Balakian, Nona. Creative present. [1st ed.] Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1963 (OCoLC)551258914 |
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