Suburban ambush : downtown writing and the fiction of insurgency / Robert Siegle.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Siegle, Robert.

Series:

• Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
• Parallax : re-visions of culture and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Experimental fiction--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.
• Experimental fiction.
• New York (State)--New York.
• American fiction--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.
• American fiction.
• American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
• City and town life in literature.
• Cities and towns in literature.
• Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life.
• New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life.
• National Book Committee.
• Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

xvii, 412 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1989]

Summary:

'Suburban Ambush' tells the story of the reinvention of American fiction. It draws its title from a piece by Ron Kolm which has appeared in several versions and nearly twenty magazines around the world: the conceit of a military strike on the heart of Suburbia has considerable resonance.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Bibliography: pages [403]-406.

ISBN:

• 0801838479
• 0801838541

OCLC:

19628568