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Author Shaw, Patrick W.

Title The modern American novel of violence / by Patrick W. Shaw
Published Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Publishing, 2000

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Description 215 pages ; 24 cm
Contents William Faulkner's Light in August -- James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice -- Katherine Ann Porter's Noon Wine -- Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Truman Capote's In Cold Blood -- Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five -- E.L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate -- Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian -- Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Violence in literature.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
ISBN 0878755098