"Modest
affectionate
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readable..
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WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
The Knack of Survival in America
Robert Coles
The noted child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize
winner "celebrates, in effect, Williams 's integrity,
insight and profound honesty in his neglected
fiction, seeing him as something of a prophet of
the America that has failed its struggling
classes ."
-Publishers Weekly.
"Coles analyzes Williams 's skill at depicting the
routine social dementia that afflicted the poor
and that resulted from the cut-throat scramble
for money in America ... indicates Williams's
central position in American letters." -
Herbert
Liebowitz, New York Times Book Review Front-
page*
$8.50
JOHN HAWKES AND THE
CRAFT OF CONFLICT
John Kuehl. "Kuehl expertly defines Hawkes's bril–
liance through the complexities of his six novels and
shows the relationship between Hawkes's central
theme -life force, Eros vs. death force , Thanatos-
and his craft ."-Library Journal.
$10.00
FICTION AS KNOWLEDGE
The Modern Post-Romantic Novel
John McCormick. Argues that modern fiction derives
much of its vitality from its roots in the Romantic
conceptions of history and reality.
$9 .00
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