Shopping in Space: Essays on America's Blank Generation Fiction - Softcover

Young, Elizabeth; Caveney, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802133940 ISBN 13: 9780802133946

Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing, 1994

Synopsis

Shopping in Space takes a walk on the wild side of literature to analyse contemporary New York fiction. This is a fiction of urban depravity and moral decay: greed and deviancy, crime, bohemianism, sexual excess, nightlife and narcotics. From the glittering consumer circus of up-town Manhattan to the desperate strategies of the alienated and dispossessed, the city offers unparalleled opportunities to the creative artist. Young and Caveney provide a close reading of a number of writers including Bret Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney, Mary Gaitskill, Gary Indiana and Dennis Cooper. Shopping in Space is the literary history of a new generation - essential for all scholars of American literature as well as the general reader who seeks a future for fiction.

About this title

Review:

?A definitive work of contemporary cultural criticism? New Statesman ?Succeeds in making literary criticism a good read? Guardian ?The only critic on the planet to accuse Ellis of morality. And she?s right? Seattle Weekly

About the Author:

Graham Caveney lectures at the University of East Anglia. His articles have appeared in The Face, NME and GQ, among many others. He lives in Nottingham.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0802133940
• ISBN 13: 9780802133946
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288