Sight-readings : American fictions / Elizabeth Hardwick.

Author/creator Hardwick, Elizabeth
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Random House, ©1998.
Description284 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Mrs. Wharton in New York -- On Washington Square -- The genius of Margaret Fuller -- Gertrude Stein -- The fate of the gifted -- Cheever, or, The ambiguities -- Citizen Updike -- Paradise lost : Philip Roth -- In the wasteland : Joan Didion -- Reckless people : Richard Ford -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Wind from the prairie -- Edmund Wilson -- Norman Mailer : the teller and the tape -- Mary McCarthy in New York -- The magical prose of poets : Elizabeth Bishop -- Tru confessions -- Something out there : Nadine Gordimer.
LCCN 97038412
ISBN0375501274 (acid-free paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS121 .H24 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold