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A selection of essays and reviews published over the past twenty-five years in the Berkshire Eagle, Chicago Review, the Chicago Tribune, Magill's Literary Annual, The World & I, and other journals and collections, Voices and Visions offers engaging discussions of a wide range of modern and contemporary American and European writers.

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Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Posthumous Papa: Ernest Hemingway Chapter 4 The March Hare: T.S. Eliot Chapter 5 Indivisible Man: Ralph Ellison Chapter 6 The Ghost Writer: Philip Roth Chapter 7 True Impressions: Saul Bellow Chapter 8 A Novelist's Revenge: E.L. Doctorow Chapter 9 Old Friends: John Updike Chapter 10 A Father's Words: Richard Stern Chapter 11 Passionate Partiality: Susan Sontag Chapter 12 The Tortoise and the Hares: Cynthia Ozick Chapter 13 A First Life: William Styron Chapter 14 Paradise Lost: Jamaica Kincaid Chapter 15 Strenuous Exercise: John Ashbery Chapter 16 As Common as Rain: John Irving Chapter 17 The Greenhouse and the Briar Patch: Toni Morrison Chapter 18 Stark-Naked Truth: Erica Jong Chapter 19 The Witness of Poetry: Czeslaw Milosz Chapter 20 Laughable Loves: Milan Kundera Chapter 21 Life with a Star: Jiri Weil Chapter 22 Into the Realm of Nightmare: Aharon Appelfeld Chapter 23 Imaginary Homelands: Salman Rushdie Chapter 24 Images and Impulses: The Chicago Novel Chapter 25 A Special Eloquence: Leon Forrest Chapter 26 The Outsiders: Bette Howland Chapter 27 Lost Illusions: Morris Philipson Chapter 28 The Red Menace: Michael Anania Chapter 29 A Legend of the City: Nicholas Von Hoffman Chapter 30 The Myth of Crows: Charles Dickinson Chapter 31 Everyday Heroes: Harry Mark Petrakis Chapter 32 About the Author

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      Publisher: University Press of America
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/18/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780761821687, 978-0761821687
      ISBN10: 0761821686

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A selection of essays and reviews published over the past twenty-five years in the Berkshire Eagle, Chicago Review, the Chicago Tribune, Magill's Literary Annual, The World & I, and other journals and collections, Voices and Visions offers engaging discussions of a wide range of modern and contemporary American and European writers.

      Table of Contents
      Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Posthumous Papa: Ernest Hemingway Chapter 4 The March Hare: T.S. Eliot Chapter 5 Indivisible Man: Ralph Ellison Chapter 6 The Ghost Writer: Philip Roth Chapter 7 True Impressions: Saul Bellow Chapter 8 A Novelist's Revenge: E.L. Doctorow Chapter 9 Old Friends: John Updike Chapter 10 A Father's Words: Richard Stern Chapter 11 Passionate Partiality: Susan Sontag Chapter 12 The Tortoise and the Hares: Cynthia Ozick Chapter 13 A First Life: William Styron Chapter 14 Paradise Lost: Jamaica Kincaid Chapter 15 Strenuous Exercise: John Ashbery Chapter 16 As Common as Rain: John Irving Chapter 17 The Greenhouse and the Briar Patch: Toni Morrison Chapter 18 Stark-Naked Truth: Erica Jong Chapter 19 The Witness of Poetry: Czeslaw Milosz Chapter 20 Laughable Loves: Milan Kundera Chapter 21 Life with a Star: Jiri Weil Chapter 22 Into the Realm of Nightmare: Aharon Appelfeld Chapter 23 Imaginary Homelands: Salman Rushdie Chapter 24 Images and Impulses: The Chicago Novel Chapter 25 A Special Eloquence: Leon Forrest Chapter 26 The Outsiders: Bette Howland Chapter 27 Lost Illusions: Morris Philipson Chapter 28 The Red Menace: Michael Anania Chapter 29 A Legend of the City: Nicholas Von Hoffman Chapter 30 The Myth of Crows: Charles Dickinson Chapter 31 Everyday Heroes: Harry Mark Petrakis Chapter 32 About the Author

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