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In Bullet Park the principal characters seek a similar angel to restore them to spiritual and psychological health. Once more, the dominant symbol for their ills comes from the world of transportation. Railroads, airlines, and freeways ...
In Bullet Park the principal characters seek a similar angel to restore them to spiritual and psychological health. Once more, the dominant symbol for their ills comes from the world of transportation. Railroads, airlines, and freeways ...
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"Paint me a small railroad station then," Bullet Park begins, and not by accident, for the "setting seems to be in some way at the heart of the matter. We travel by plane, oftener than not, and yet the spirit of our country seems to ...
"Paint me a small railroad station then," Bullet Park begins, and not by accident, for the "setting seems to be in some way at the heart of the matter. We travel by plane, oftener than not, and yet the spirit of our country seems to ...
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But these resonances penetrate deepest into his most recent fiction — Bullet Park, the stories in The World of Apples, and most of all his novel Falconer (1977). Even Bullet Park is, as John Gardner observed, "a religious book, ...
But these resonances penetrate deepest into his most recent fiction — Bullet Park, the stories in The World of Apples, and most of all his novel Falconer (1977). Even Bullet Park is, as John Gardner observed, "a religious book, ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis supplement, the latest addition to the well-known "American Writers'' series, includes 29 authors. All except Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century orator and writer, are 20th-century poets ... Read full review
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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