The New American Novel of Manners: The Fiction of Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane de Jerome Klinkowitz - 1986-06

University of Georgia Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1986 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Printing. A very nice copy..

Athens, GA & London: University of Georgia Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. First Printing. Hardcover. 082030817X . Very good, no markings and no tears. .

University of Georgia Press, 1986. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. fine with nice bright d.j. Inscribed and signed by Klinkowitz on the half title.

Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 176 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. In the 1960s, as the underpinnings of society weakened, the traditional novel form seemed less suited to describe American reality. Theorists groped towards non-mimetic fiction as the tools that had sustained the novel since its birth―coherent characterization, linear plot, symbolism―became tools of New Journalism. The New American Novel of Manners explores the virtual reinvention of the novel of manners in America out of the same subjectivity that charged the works of New Journalism.In place of the rigid social structures that never seemed to depict America, novelists such as Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane located America’s modern-day manners in its semiotics, in the system of signs that envelops us―the blue jeans people wear, the fast food they eat, the décor of the bars they drink in and the… Leer más

University of Georgia, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 176pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.