Sight-Readings: American Fictions - Hardcover

Hardwick, Elizabeth

 
9780375501272: Sight-Readings: American Fictions
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375501274 ISBN 13: 9780375501272
Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

An acclaimed American essayist, whose first collection, Seduction and Betrayal, was nominated for the National Book Award, uses her sharp intellect and elegant prose style to consider America's greatest female authors.

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Elizabeth Hardwick is the author of three collections of essays, Bartleby in Manhattan, A View of My Own, and Seduction and Betrayal, which was nominated for the National Book Award. Her novel Sleepless Nights was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has received the Lifetime Achievement Citation from the National Book Critics Circle and the Gold Medal for Belles-Lettres and Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City.

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n 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.<br> 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

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Verlag
Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0375501274
ISBN 13 
9780375501272
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
284
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