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Sight readings : American fictions / Elizabeth Hardwick.

Author: Hardwick, Elizabeth.

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:New York : Random House, c1998.

Description284 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:Old New York: Mrs. Wharton in New York -- On Washington Square -- Americans abroad: The Genius of Margaret Fuller -- Gertrude Stein -- The Fate of the gifted -- Fictions of America: Cheever; or, The Ambiguities -- Citizen Updike -- Paradise Lost: Philip Roth -- In the wasteland: Joan Didion -- Reckless people: Richard Ford -- Biographies: Katherine Anne Porter -- Wind from the Prairie -- Edmund Wilson -- Norman Mailer: The teller and the tape -- Snapshots: Mary McCarthy in New York -- The Magical prose of poets: Elizabeth Bishop -- Tru confessions -- Other Shores: Something out there: Nadine Gordimer.



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Author:
Hardwick, Elizabeth.
Subject:
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850.
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.
Updike, John.
Roth, Philip.
Didion, Joan.
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.
Ford, Richard, 1944-
Mailer, Norman.
McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
Gordimer, Nadine.
Subject:
American literature -- History and criticism.
Authors, American -- Biography.
United States -- Civilization.