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Sight-Readings
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
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- Type
- Literry Criticism
- Literary Movement
- Modernism
- Personalized
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- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780375501272
- Book Title
- Sight-Readings : American Fictions
- Item Length
- 8.7 in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Item Weight
- 16.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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It is only in a country where newness and change and brevity of tenure are the common substance of life," wrote Henry James, "that the fact of one's ancestors having lived for a hundred and seventy years in a single spot would become an element of one's morality." Newness and rootedness are the twin poles of Sight-Readings, Elizabeth Hardwick's brilliant new collection of essays. (Her first, Seduction and Betrayal, was nominated for the National Book Award.) Hardwick's focus here is on American writers, at home and abroad, and especially women, as writers and as characters: Edith Wharton, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion, among others. In sections on Old New York, Americans Abroad, and Fictions of America, Hardwick considers writers and their landscapes, real and imagined. Her essays on Edith Wharton and Henry James illuminate aspects of their inventions of New York. From there she takes us to the Paris of Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes, into the hermetic world of Boston Transcendentalism, and on to the suburbs of John Cheever, the America of Philip Roth and John Updike, and the restless expanses of Richard Ford and the Prairie poets. Elizabeth Hardwick has achieved a permanent place in American letters for her sharp and elegant criticism. Her essays on American writers are them-selves a work of literature.
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375501274
ISBN-13
9780375501272
eBay Product ID (ePID)
243502
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sight-Readings : American Fictions
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps121.H24 1998
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-038412
Dewey Decimal
810.9
Dewey Edition
21
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