{"product_id":"american-dream-american-nightmare-9780252070570","title":"American Dream American Nightmare","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA celebration of contemporary American fiction. It explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation. In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, it identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly disparate and unconnected writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hume shows an encylopedic knowledge of the period she covers as she surveys novels that exhibit common techniques, problems, and issues. . . . This well-documented study, with its lengthy bibliography, will be valuable and engaging for students and scholars at all levels.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Hume] works inductively, considering roughly one hundred novels published between 1960 and 1990 in order to illuminate their thematic alliances. . . . [This volume] succeeds because of Hume's sharp eye for detail. A master of the one-thousand-word critique, she is able to succinctly move thorugh dense novels without neglecting significant themes or ignoring pressing issues. . . . I can think of no better text to introduce graduate students to the field, enlighten specialists working in earlier periods, or guide the general reader looking for a map through the terrain of contemporary fiction.\"--Eric Schocket, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A significant critical evaluation of contemporary American fiction that is sure to influence our understanding of the literature of the second half of the twentieth century. . . . No one can claim to understand contemporary American fiction if he or she has not read and come to grips with the arguments in Hume's book.\"--David W. Price, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Humanities Review\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400472764759,"sku":"9780252070570","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-dream-american-nightmare-9780252070570","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}