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New American Story

New American Story

Robert Creeley
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These 17 stories dig deep into America today. Each one — whether about a Navajo Indian, queer hustler or used-car salesman — is an exact refraction of the beliefs, conventions and behaviour patterns of a people in a state of change.

This change is reflected in the writers' styles. A freedom and individuality new to American writing informs them all — from the explosive 'wordscapes' of Kerouac and Burroughs to the taut power of Robert Creeley and Hubert Selby Jr.

Some of the stories are concerned with a middle class trapped in a world of advertising and TV; some, the victims of race, perversion and poverty. Some eschew plot to exploit myth, symbol and language; many have messages that are hard to take...
Language
English
Pages
278
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Grove Press
Release
May 06, 1965

New American Story

Robert Creeley
4.6/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
These 17 stories dig deep into America today. Each one — whether about a Navajo Indian, queer hustler or used-car salesman — is an exact refraction of the beliefs, conventions and behaviour patterns of a people in a state of change.

This change is reflected in the writers' styles. A freedom and individuality new to American writing informs them all — from the explosive 'wordscapes' of Kerouac and Burroughs to the taut power of Robert Creeley and Hubert Selby Jr.

Some of the stories are concerned with a middle class trapped in a world of advertising and TV; some, the victims of race, perversion and poverty. Some eschew plot to exploit myth, symbol and language; many have messages that are hard to take...
Language
English
Pages
278
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Grove Press
Release
May 06, 1965

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