100 must-read American novels / Nick Rennison, Ed Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rennison, Nick, author.

Wood, Ed, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury good reading guides.

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : A. & C. Black, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Which 100 novels represent the finest American literature ever produced? Let this book be your guide. Ordered A-Z by author this latest title in the popular Must-Read series provides a rich resource for your reading. It features 100 titles from 19th century classics: Melville's Moby Dick and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, to the 1920s generation: Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner, the Beat generation (Kerouac's On the Road) to the major writers of today: Toni Morrison (Beloved) Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay), Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections), D

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About This Book; Introduction; A-Z of Entries; Altered States (Drink and Drugs); Short Stories; Down These Mean Streets (The American Detective); The American Civil War; Future Americas and Alternative Americas; Small Town America; The Jewish Experience; The West; New York through the Decades; Up from Slavery (African-American fiction); Deep South; Hooray for Hollywood?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 14, 2018).

ISBN:

1-282-96039-3

9786612960390

1-4081-3091-2

1-4081-3601-5

OCLC:

727648234