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BL
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873760
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| Main Entry
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Millard, Kenneth.
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| Title & Author
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Contemporary American fiction /\ Kenneth Millard.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2000.
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| Page. NO
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viii, 328 pages ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0198711786
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: 9780198711780
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-324) and index.
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| Contents
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Toni Morrison: The bluest eye -- Russell Banks: Affliction -- E.A. Proulx: The shipping news -- Jay McInerney: Bright lights, big city -- Barbara Kingsolver: The bean trees -- John Dufresne: Louisiana Power & Light -- Bobbie Ann Mason: In country -- Jayne Anne Phillips: Machine dreams -- Jane Smiley: A thousand acres -- Alice Walker: The color purple -- Cormac McCarthy: Blood meridian -- E.A. Proulx: Close range -- Sherman Alexie: The Lone-Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven -- Tim O'Brien: Northern lights -- Donald Antrim: Elect Mr. Robinson for a better world -- E.L. Doctorow: Ragtime -- Don DeLillo: White noise -- Don DeLillo: Mao II -- Don DeLillo: Underworld -- Po Bronson: Bombardiers -- Gish Jen: Typical American -- Chang-rae Lee: Native speaker -- John Edgar Wideman: Philadelphia fire -- Paul Auster: The New York trilogy -- Barry Hannah: High lonesome -- Richard Ford: The sportwriter -- William Kennedy: Billy Phelan's greatest game -- Leonard Gardner: Fat city -- Don DeLillo: End zone -- Robert Coover: The Universal Baseball Association, inc. J. Henry Waugh, Prop. -- John Updike: Memories of the Ford administration -- Philip Roth: American pastoral -- E.L. Doctorow: Billy Bathgate -- Louise Erdrich: Tales of burning love.
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| Abstract
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Millard leads the interpretation of post-1970 fiction by addressing particular authors and themes.
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| Subject
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Roman américain-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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American fiction.
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Roman américain-- 1970-2000-- Histoire et critique.
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Amerikaans.
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| Subject
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Fictie.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.5409
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| LC Classification
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PS379.M47 2000
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| NLM classification
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18.06bcl
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