American Ways
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Bourjaily, Vance: The Hound of Earth - A Novel, London Martin Secker and Warburg, Ltd 1956 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; sig.; 1. Ed.
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First English edition of the author's second book. 256pp. Brown cloth, cream ink spine lettering, cream endpapers. Dust jacket price 15/. Book has thin line of black tape residue to edges o/w very tight and Fine; Dust jacket has some faint tape shadows [mostly to interior and not discernable from exterior] o/w Fine. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to first blank page. Very scarce signed. 'Bourjaily occupies a curious place in [American] modern fiction. A serious writer who deals thoughtfully with important themes, he has for the most part been ignored by the critics; a novelist who dilineates in interesting ways the vagaries of American life..., he has never been a popular success. [He] is, nevertheless, that rarest of phenomena in American fiction, the novelist who develops and improves his craft in successive books. Without attracting attention as an innovator, he has experimented in interesting ways with different methods of handling and presenting his materials, and he has consistently refined a style that is personal without being idiosyncratic..........he writes about man's relationship to nature better than any other writer of his generation...he evokes the magnificence and myster of the natural world and its effect ...wit genuine mastery....he has the ability to create memorable and distinctive characters, and unusual skill in reproducing the ways in which they talk. His novels taken together make a distinctive picture of American life...less a social document than a sensitive rendition of what it has been like to live through [these] times." - John M. Muste. A truly underrated and underappreciated writer from the Styron/Mailer/Jones/Shaw [i.e. the World War II] generation. "Although only his first book 'The End of My Life' can properly be called a war novel, the war occupies a pivotal position in each of his first four novels as the most significant event in the development of that generation...[In this second novel] action develops around a man who is running from the knowledge that he had participated in the development of the atomic bomb....it remains one of the few American novels which have made even an attempt to deal with the problems raised by... atomic weapons. ' - John Muste. Signed by Author First Edition Near Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; First Edition
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Bourjaily, Vance: Now Playing Canterbury - A Novel, NY The Dial Press, Inc. 1976
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Seventh novel. 'Bourjaily occupies a curious place in [American] modern fiction. A serious writer who deals thoughtfully with important themes, he has for the most part been ignored by the critics; a novelist who dilineates in interesting ways the vagaries of American life..., he has never been a popular success. [He] is, nevertheless, that rarest of phenomena in American fiction, the novelist who develops and improves his craft in successive books. Without attracting attention as an innovator, he has experimented in interesting ways with different methods of handling and presenting his materials, and he has consistently refined a style that is personal without being idiosyncratic......he writes about man's relationship to nature better than any other writer of his generation...he evokes the magnificence and myster of the natural world and its effect ...wit genuine mastery....he has the ability to create memorable and distinctive characters, and unusual skill in reproducing the ways in which they talk. His novels taken together make a distinctive picture of American life...less a social document than a sensitive rendition of what it has been like to live through [these] times." - John M. Muste. A truly underrated and underappreciated writer from the Styron/Mailer/Jones/Shaw [i.e. the World War II] generation. "Although only his first book 'The End of My Life' can properly be called a war novel, the war occupies a pivotal position in each of his first four novels as the most significant event in the development of that generation." - John M. Muste. "To call [his seventh novel] an American 'Canterbury Tales' is to do it a disservice, for it can't be compared to anything else; it is unique. But the spirit of Chaucer is here - the bawdiness, the joy in life, the phenomenal understanding of the strengths and foibles of human beings....among many things [one will experience] are a drag race, a killer cat, the mysterious theft of some valeuless paintings, the world premiere of an opera set in the deep South, and, to put it mildly, a remarkable orgy in the north woods.....[[it is] great entertainment and great art, it is serious and lighthearted, profound and easy, raunchy and sweet." - dust jacket flaps. xiv, 522pp. Yellow faux cloth, gilt spine lettering and design, blindstamped author initials design front cover, green endpapers, light yellow top-stain. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Book is unblemished. White dust jacket is price-clipped and has some minimal age-toning o/w Fine. Signed by Author to half-title page. Signed by Author First Edition Near Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Benjamin G. Rader: American Ways: A History of American Cultures, 1865 to Present Volume II, ISBN: 0495030090
Enhance your understanding of American culture with AMERICAN WAYS: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CULTURES, 1865 TO PRESENT, VOLUME 11! This history text traces the developing cultural ways of Americans from... Format: Paperback Condition: New
TIMOTHY L SCHROER.. Recasting Race After World War II. University Press of Colorado (US). 2007.. University Press of Colorado (US), 2007.
Hardback, 295pp., NEW, Explores the re-negotiation of race by Germans and African American GIs in post-World War II Germany. Schroer dissects the ways in which notions of blackness and whiteness became especially problematic in interactions between Germans and American soldiers serving as part of the victorious occupying army at the end of the war. The segregation of US Army forces fed a growing debate in America about whether a Jim Crow army could truly be a democratising force in post-war Germany. Schroer follows the evolution of that debate and examines the ways in which post-war conditions necessitated re-examination of race relations. He reveals how anxiety about interracial relationships between African American men and German women united white American soldiers and the German populace. He also traces the importation and influence of African American jazz music in Germany, illuminating the subtle ways in which occupied Germany represented a crucible in which to recast the meaning of race in a post-Holocaust world. Gazl NEW.
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