The Absurd Hero in American Fiction: Updike, Styron, Bellow, Salinger

by David D. Galloway

Book Overview

When The Absurd Hero in American Fiction was first released in 1966, Granville Hicks praised it in a lead article for the Saturday Review as a sensitive and definitive study of a new trend in postwar American literature. In the years that followed, David Galloway's analysis of the writings of John Updike, William Styron, Saul Bellow, and J. D. Salinger became a standard critical work, an indispensable tool for readers concerned with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292703554
• ISBN13: 9780292703551
• Release Date: June 1981
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"