Persoonlijk gekleurd essay over de rol van alcohol in leven en werk van zes Amerikaanse schrijvers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever en Raymond Carver.
"This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics chronicle the major aesthetic innovations that have shaped the American novel over the past two centuries. The essays evaluate the work, life and legacy of influential American novelists including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon and Morrison, while situating them within the context of their literary predecessors and successors. The volume also highlights less familiar, though equally significant writers such as Theodore Dreiser and Djuna Barnes, providing a balanced and wide-ranging survey of use to students, teachers and general readers of American literature"--Bundeling essays over dertig Amerikaanse schrijvers.
Interviews met Amerikaanse schrijvers: William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Jack Kerouac, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Paul Auster, William Burroughs, Raymond Carver, Don Delillo, Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, Henry Miller, Susan Sontag, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut en John Irving.
Herinneringen van de Amerikaanse schrijver (1899-1961) aan zijn Parijse tijd (1921-1926) toen hij omging met Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound en Scott Fitzgerald.
Monografie over de laatste periode 1934-1961 uit het leven van de Amerikaanse schrijver (1899-1961), onder meer over de relatie met zijn zoon Gregory.
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