Sight-Readings: American Fictions - Hardcover

Hardwick, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375501274 ISBN 13: 9780375501272

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1998

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Book by Hardwick Elizabeth

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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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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.
        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
• ISBN 10: 0375501274
• ISBN 13: 9780375501272
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284