Research Catalog

Title

Bright book of life : American novelists and storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer [uncorrected galley proof].

Author

Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.

Publication

Boston : Little, Brown, [1973]

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Details

Description

[302] p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism

Note

• "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Contents

A dream of order: Hemingway -- The secret of the South: Faulkner to Percy -- The decline of war: Mailer to Vonnegut -- Professional observers: Cozzens to Updike -- The earthly city of the Jews: Bellow to Singer -- Cassandras: Porter to Oates -- The imagination of fact: Capote to Mailer -- Absurdity as a contemporary style: Ellison to Pynchon -- A personal sense of time: Nabokov and other exiles.

Call Number

Berg Coll Nabokov ZA3 K39 1973

OCLC

700215475

Author

Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.

Title

Bright book of life : American novelists and storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer [uncorrected galley proof].

Imprint

Boston : Little, Brown, [1973]

Edition

1st ed.

Access

Restricted access; Request permission from holding division.

Local Note

"Alfred Kazin" written in an unknown hand on the cover and title page. Pages numbered by hand in black ink.

Berg Collection copy with minor annotations by Nabokov in the final chapter.

Berg Collection copy formerly owned by Vladimir Nabokov and acquired with his archive in July 1991.

With Nabokov's spine label in red pencil: "Kazin Nekazistyy."

Berg Collection copy with a flag penned in Dmitri Nabokov's hand indicating shelf mark.

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Added Author

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Nabokov ZA3 K39 1973