| Dlb 2: American Novelists Since World War II, First Series Contributor(s): Helterman, Jeffrey (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0810309149 ISBN-13: 9780810309142 Publisher: Gale Cengage OUR PRICE: $453.86 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1978 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | Reference |
| Dewey: 813.03 |
| LCCN: 77082804 |
| Series: Dictionary of Literary Biography |
| Physical Information: 1.37" H x 8.7" W x 11.22" (4.19 lbs) 557 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the three decades following World War II, the novel as a literary form flourished in America. As the baby boom generation matured, so did the market for fiction. By the mid-70s, nearly 1, 800 hardcover books of fiction were being published every year along with a comparable number of paperbacks. The proliferation of paperbacks brought low prices and huge press runs. The resulting mass marketing of novels brought a new visibility to works of fiction and gave rise to a new generation of American novelists. And, as the publishing industry boomed, there was a similar increase in the field of literary criticism, giving a wealth of scholarly material from which to derive the 80 author profiles found in thisDLB volume. 80 entries include: James Baldwin, John Barth, Saul Bellow, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Jerzy Kosinski, Mary McCarthy, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Gore Vida, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and Eudora Welty. |