The Creative Present: Notes on Contemporary American Fiction
Nona Balakian and Charles Simmons, Editors / Harvey Breit, Donald Barr, AlanR. Jones, Pryce-Jones, Mark Schorer, Robert Gorham Davis, Diana Trilling, Alan R. Jones, David L. Stevenson, Granville Hicks, John Chamberlain
Language: English
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1963
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- Hardcover
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265 pp. , xx. NAP, NO number line: assumed reprint. Dark gray cloth with brilliant silver lettering on spine; beveled fore-edge. Contents divided into 10 Essays: (1) Harvey Breit, "James Baldwin and Two Footnotes"; (2) Donald Barr, "Ah, Buddy: Salinger"; (3) "Alan Pryce-Jones, "The Fabulist's Worlds: Vladimir Nabokov"; (4) Mark Schorer, "McCullers and Capote: Basic Patterns"; (5) Robert Gorham Davis, "The American Individualist Tradition: Bellow and Styron"; (6) Diana Trilling, "The Radical Moralism of Norman Mailer"; (7) Alan R. Jones, "The World of Love: The Fiction of Eudora Welty"; (8) David L. Stevenson, "James Jones and Jack Kerouac: Novelists of Disjunction"; (9) Granville Hicks, "Generations of the Fifties: Malamud, Gold, and Updike"; (10 John Chamberlain, "The Novels of Mary McCarthy"; Bibliographies, pp. 257-262; Contributors, pp. 263-265. Shiny dustwrapper not price-clipped ($4.95) with Title lettering in white letters across top front cover, superimposed over a black band, above a grid of 12 squares on remainder of front cover, each with an Essay and its Author printed, except for top right two squares in orange for Subtitle, other squares in black orange, dark red or lavender. Thin lines of wear across front cover and a bit more wear at spine ends and corners and front cover corners only; 1/2" tear down top edge at 1" from top right corner (Archival tape backing now in place); slight offsetting on endpapers opposite vertical lines of dw panels against inside covers: describes worse than it, but there you have it. Now in Brodart mylar which graciously forgives all trespasses. Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or cracks); NO rubbing wear (dustwrapper did its job); NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks. Clean text. Way to read a Literature Classic more than 50 years-old. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Creative Present: Notes on Contemporary American Fiction
- Author
- Nona Balakian and Charles Simmons, Editors / Harvey Breit, Donald Barr, AlanR. Jones, Pryce-Jones, Mark Schorer, Robert Gorham Davis, Diana Trilling, Alan R. Jones, David L. Stevenson, Granville Hicks, John Chamberlain
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY
- Publication year
- 1963
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Theoria Books
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