Magill's literary annual, 2009 : essay-reviews of 200 outstanding books published in the United States during 2008 : with an annotated list of titles / edited by John D. Wilson, Steven G. Kellman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, John D., editor.

Kellman, Steven G., 1947- editor.

Series:

Magill's Literary Annual

Magill's Literary Annual ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--Reviews.

Books.

Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

United States--Imprints--Book reviews.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations

Edition:

2009th ed.

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Seeks to evaluate numerous examples of serious literature, both fiction and nonfiction, published during the previous calendar year. Each essay-review analyzes and presents the focus, intent, and relative success of the author, as well as the makeup and point of view of the work under discussion.

Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""COMPLETE ANNOTATED LIST OF TITLES""; ""The Library at Night""; ""Life Class""; ""The Life of the Skies""; ""Lincoln and Douglas""; ""The Line upon a Wind""; ""The Lodger Shakespeare""; ""The Lost History of Christianity ""; ""Lulu in Marrakech""; ""Lush Life""; ""McMafia""; ""The Magical Chorus""; ""Man in the Dark""; ""The Man Who Loved China""; ""The Man Who Made Lists""; ""Maps and Legends""; ""A Mercy""; ""The Miracle at Speedy Motors""; ""The Modern Element""; ""A Most Wanted Man""; ""My Revolutions""; ""My Sister, My Love""; ""Napoleon""; ""Natural Acts""

""Nazi Literature in the Americas""""Netherland""; ""New Collected Poems""; ""1948""; ""Nixonland ""; ""Nothing to Be Frightened Of""; ""Old World, New World""; ""Olive Kitteridge""; ""One More Year""; ""The Open Road""; ""Original Sin""; ""The Other Half""; ""Our Story Begins""; ""A Passion for Nature""; ""People of the Book""; ""A Person of Interest""; ""Pictures at a Revolution""; ""The Plague of Doves""; ""The Post-American World""; ""Posthumous Keats""; ""The Power Makers""; ""The Private Patient""; ""The Pyramid""; ""Quiet, Please""; ""The Reavers""; ""Reconciliation""; ""Red Bird""

""Retribution""""Rising, Falling, Hovering""; ""The Road Home""; ""Save the Last Dance""; ""Say You�re One of Them""; ""Sea of Poppies""; ""The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal""; ""Selected Poems""; ""Shakespeare�s Wife""; ""The Silver Swan""; ""Sitting Bull""; ""Sleeping It Off in Rapid City""; ""The Solitary Vice""; ""The Soul Thief""; ""The Spies of Warsaw""; ""A Step from Death""; ""The Story of a Marriage""; ""The Story of Edgar Sawtelle""; ""A Summer of Hummingbirds""; ""Taking on the Trust""; ""The Ten-Cent Plague""; ""Terror and Consent""; ""That Little Something""

""Theodor W. Adorno""""There a Petal Silently Falls""; ""This Republic of Suffering""; ""Traffic""; ""The Tree of Meaning""; ""2666""; ""Unaccustomed Earth""; ""The Waitress Was New""; ""Wallace Stegner and the American West""; ""Wellsprings""; ""What I Talk About When I Talk About Running""; ""When You Are Engulfed in Flames""; ""Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?""; ""White Heat ""; ""The White Tiger""; ""The Widows of Eastwick""; ""Willie Nelson""; ""The Winter War""; ""Without Saying ""; ""Woman�s World""; ""The Word of the Lord Is upon Me""; ""The World Is What It Is""; ""World War I""

""Worlds Before Adam""""The Writer as Migrant""; ""Your Inner Fish""; ""BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS BY SUBJECT""; ""CATEGORY INDEX""; ""TITLE INDEX""; ""AUTHOR INDEX""

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 3, 2016).

ISBN:

9786612277375

9781587655494

1587655497

9781282277373

1282277375

9781587655500

1587655500

OCLC:

449964318