An edition of Literary Brooklyn (2011)

Literary Brooklyn

the story of an American place

1st ed.

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An edition of Literary Brooklyn (2011)

Literary Brooklyn

the story of an American place

1st ed.

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Publisher
Holt Paperbacks
Language
English
Pages
337

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Literary Brooklyn: the story of an American place
2011, Holt Paperbacks
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Table of Contents

The grandfather of literary Brooklyn : Walt Whitman
The street was everything : Henry Miller
Out of the fray : Hart Crane and Marianne Moore
A long way from New York : Thomas Wolfe
The longest journey : Daniel Fuchs, Bernard Malamud, Alfred Kazin
The great migration : Richard Wright
The birth of Brooklyn cool : "February house" and Truman Capote
The shadow of the war : William Styron and Sophie's choice
Underground rumbles : Norman Mailer
The postwar chill : Arthur Miller, Pete Hamill, Hubert Selby, Jr
Into the thickets of urban crisis : Jonathan Lethem, L.J. Davis, Paula Fox
A hint of things to come : Paul Auster, a renaissance in Fort Greene
A literary capital : the Brooklyn of today.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/974723
Library of Congress
PS144.B76 H84 2011, PS144.B76H84 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
337

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24809084M
ISBN 13
9780805089868
LCCN
2011006652
OCLC/WorldCat
704557073

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15902018W

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