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Robert Ludlum
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 1997
690 kr
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There's more than meets the eye in the fiction of the master of the espionage thriller Robert Ludlum. In a study that examines seventeen of Ludlum's novels in depth, including the latest, The Apocalypse Watch (1995), Macdonald uncovers the serious themes running through the novels: the role of the …
James Herriot
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 1997
690 kr
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This study examines James Herriot's five major books as carefully crafted volumes of autobiography based on the building block of the short story. In each of these works Herriot explores the fundamental choice of values underlying a happy and successful life. In his vision the bonds of affection …
Revisiting Stephen King
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 2002
807 kr
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Having endured an initially frigid critcal reception, personal struggles with addiction, and a mid-life accident that nearly killed him, Stephen King continues to reign as perhaps the most popular and prolific writer in America. This new edition of the critical companion to his works includes an …
Kurt Vonnegut
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 2002
753 kr
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With a career spanning 50 years, Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most prolific and popular American writers of the 20th century. Though his works have often met with mixed reviews, and have been difficult to categorize, his status of cultural icon and one of the most important contemporary novelists is …
Ray Bradbury
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 2000
807 kr
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Reviewers and critics have not always agreed on how well the science fiction label fit Ray Bradbury, but the immense popularity of works like The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man leaves no doubt as to the enduring status of this important writer. This Critical Companion examines, in a …
Jamaica Kincaid
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 1999
807 kr
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With the publication of her novel Annie John in 1985, Jamaica Kincaid entered the ranks of the best novelists of her generation. Her three autobiographical novels, Annie John , Lucy , and Autobiography of My Mother , and collection of short stories, At the Bottom of the River , touch on the …
Barbara Kingsolver
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 1999
731 kr
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Barbara Kingsolver wears the feminist mantle with joyful pride, and her spirited embrace of political themes is contagious. Responding to richly-drawn heroines along their journeys to do right by family and community, readers embrace Kingsolver's political novels, making them bestsellers. From the …
John Irving
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 1998
789 kr
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One of America's most noted contemporary novelists, John Irving has created a body of fiction of extraordinary range, moving with ease from romance to fairytale to thriller. Although his fiction follows in the tradition of the great 19th-century world novelists, he is a quintessential American …
Anne Tyler
A Critical Companion
Av Paul Bail
E-bok, 1998
807 kr
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Anne Tyler's novels strike a deep chord of responsiveness in her readers because her novels bring to life contemporary characters to whom we can instantly relate and in whose experiences we can see mirrored our own. Tyler's novels deal with the human experience: relationships between marital …
Toni Morrison
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 1998
807 kr
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, Toni Morrison is among our most distinguished contemporary novelists. Morrison describes herself as a black woman novelist, and all her novels deal with African American characters and communities. Exploring the entire cycle of human life in a …
Tom Robbins
A Critical Companion
Av Catherine E. Hoyser, Lorena Laura Stookey
E-bok, 1997
695 kr
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This is the first book-length study of the popular novelist Tom Robbins. Whimsy and humor characterize Robbins' work, but style and language are the keystones. Hoyser and Stookey show how Robbins deftly uses style and humor to depict the absurdities and injustices of our world. His novels …
John Grisham
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 1997
789 kr
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With his seven legal thrillers, all published since 1989, John Grisham has won a huge following of readers and set a standard few contributors to the genre can match. Because of the success of his novels, the legal thriller is the most popular genre in American fiction today. In this study, Pringle …
James Herriot
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 1997
674 kr
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This study examines James Herriot's five major books as carefully crafted volumes of autobiography based on the building block of the short story. In each of these works Herriot explores the fundamental choice of values underlying a happy and successful life. In his vision the bonds of affection …
John Jakes
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 1996
753 kr
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John Jakes, often called the people's author and godfather of the historical novel, has made American history come to life in his series The Kent Family Chronicles and The North and South Trilogy. Through these novels, Jakes conveys the sweep of American history, both its glory and its grim scenes, …
Ken Follett
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 1996
737 kr
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Ken Follett had the purest of motives when he began writing fiction: he did it for the money. But after ^IEye of the Needle^R catapulted him to success and secured his reputation as a master of the spy thriller, he both built on that success with other spy thrillers and experimented equally …
Scott Turow
A Critical Companion
Av Andrew F. Macdonald, Gina Macdonald
E-bok, 2005
870 kr
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Scott Turow is a novelist, lawyer, and humanist who has fused his two passions, writing and the law, to create challenging novels that raise significant legal issues and test the justice of present laws. In all of his books, Turow reveals the moral ambiguities that afflict both accuser and accused, …
Gabriel García Márquez
A Critical Companion
Av Rubén Pelayo
E-bok, 2001
745 kr
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude , Gabriel Garc^D'ia M^D'arquez had already earned tremendous respect and popularity in the years leading up to that honor, and remains, to date, an active and prolific writer. Readers are introduced …
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Critical Companion
Av Susan M. Bernardo, Graham J. Murphy
E-bok, 2006
1165 kr
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Though science fiction has existed as a literary genre for well over a century, a working definition of the term has yet to be determined. Ursula K. Le Guin, who emerged as a popular science fiction and fantasy writer in the 1960s, has not only witnessed, but also experienced first-hand the shifts …
Louise Erdrich
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 1999
729 kr
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Louise Erdrich, following in the Native American narrative tradition has, crafted enduring tales of homecomings. Her widely acclaimed debut novel Love Medicine garnered prestigious awards, and quickly made its way onto bestseller lists and into readers' hearts. In this full-length critical volume, …
Isabel Allende
A Critical Companion
Av Karen C. Cox
E-bok, 2003
789 kr
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Isabel Allende garnered immediate attention and international acclaim with the 1982 publication of House of Spirits . Allende drew favorable comparisons to male Latin American writers who were dominating a boom movement that mixed political and magical themes. Yet her engaging epic became a …
Kaye Gibbons
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 2003
610 kr
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Born to a tobacco farmer in rural North Carolina, Kaye Gibbons found her literary voice by speaking through the strong southern women who inhabit her novels. While concentrating on the places and people she knows well, Gibbons has managed to speak for people who struggle to find their own place, …
James Patterson
A Critical Companion
Av Joan Kotker
E-bok, 2004
789 kr
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Since the publication and cinematic success of 1992's Along Came a Spider , James Patterson seems to have taken up permanent residence on the bestseller lists. In the ensuing decade, his hit detective novels, with memorable nursery rhyme titles like Cat and Mouse , (1997) and Pop! Goes the Weasel …
Alice Walker
A Critical Companion
Av Gerri Bates
E-bok, 2005
896 kr
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Alice Walker, born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944, overcame a disadvantaged sharecropping background, blindness in one eye, and the tense times of the Civil Rights Movement to become one of the world's most respected African American writers. While attending both Spelman and Sarah Lawrence Colleges, …
Gloria Naylor
A Critical Companion
E-bok, 2001
753 kr
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In each of her five novels, Gloria Naylor invites the reader to join her characters in their journeys to move beyond established boundaries and embrace an increasingly diverse society. With lucid analyses of each work, this Critical Companion helps readers comprehend how Naylor successfully links …
Mary Higgins Clark
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 1995
560 kr
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Best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, uses a popular literary genre, the novel of mystery and suspense, to explore contemporary social issues and the reality of evil in the lives of ordinary people. This first critical study of her work reveals the serious intent of a …
Michael Crichton
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 1996
682 kr
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Until now, Michael Crichton's many readers have had nowhere to turn for more information on one of America's most popular novelists. This companion features clear analyses of Crichton's life and literary influences, as well as chapters on each of his 13 novels to date. It will help Crichton's …
Ken Follett
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 1996
690 kr
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Ken Follett had the purest of motives when he began writing fiction: he did it for the money. But after ^IEye of the Needle^R catapulted him to success and secured his reputation as a master of the spy thriller, he both built on that success with other spy thrillers and experimented equally …
Tony Hillerman
A Critical Companion
Av John Reilly
Inbunden, 1996
690 kr
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Edgar Award-winning writer Tony Hillerman has earned a reputation as a Grand Master of the popular mystery. This is the first full-length examination of his work. One of the most successful contemporary American writers, Hillerman has made his stories of Native American detectives instrumental in …
Stephen King
A Critical Companion
Inbunden, 1996
739 kr
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One of the most prolific and popular contemporary novelists, Stephen King has a devoted following of captivated readers. This is the first critical work on King to examine his most recent novels, Dolores Claiborne, Insomnia, and Rose Madder, and to analyze the many threads of his fiction in a way …
Tom Robbins
A Critical Companion
Av Catherine E. Hoyser, Lorena Laura Stookey
Inbunden, 1997
637 kr
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This is the first book-length study of the popular novelist Tom Robbins. Whimsy and humor characterize Robbins' work, but style and language are the keystones. Hoyser and Stookey show how Robbins deftly uses style and humor to depict the absurdities and injustices of our world. His novels …
