Gardner, John 1933-1982 creator O'Nan, Stewart 1961- editor Johnson, Charles text mau Reading, Mass Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. c1994 1994 monographic eng

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xxi, 297 p. ; 24 cm. This collection brings together Gardner's essays on literature. He explains how he separates novelistic wheat from chaff, genuine fiction from fakery. Gardner examines contemporary writers - Bellow, Nabokov, Roth, Cheever, Woiwode, Oates, Updike, and other major authors Introduction by Charles Johnson; Bartleby: Art and Social Commitment; An Invective Against Mere Fiction; More Smog from the Dark Satanic Mills; Witchcraft in Bullet Park, by John Cheever; Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll; The Breast, by Phillip Roth; The Way We Write Now; Saint Walt; The Adventurer, by Paul Zweig; Beyond the Bedroom Wall, by Larry Woiwode; Amber (Get) Waves (Your) of (Plastic) Grain (Uncle Sam); JR, by William Gaddis; The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, by John Steinbeck; Lancelot, by Walker Percy; Falconer, by John Cheever; The Castle of Crossed Destinies, by Italo Calvino; Daniel Martin, by John Fowles; The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkein; The Stories of John Cheever; Dublins Lives, by Bernard Malmud; Sophies Choice, by William Styron; A Writers View of Contemporary American Fiction; Bellefleur, by Joyce Carol Oates; Italian Folktales, by Italo Calvino; Fiction in MSS; What Writers Do; Cartoons; Julius Caesar and the Werewolf; General Plan for The Sunlight Dialogues John Gardner ; introduction by Charles Johnson ; edited by Stewart O'Nan. Includes index. Books Reviews Crítica literaria Libros Reseñas PS 3557 G227o 1994 809.3/04 0201626721 9780201626728 DLC 190930 20230411090600.0 spa