Kate Charlton-Jones

Broschiertes Buch

Dismembering the American Dream

The Life and Fiction of Richard Yates

Beschreibung

Since his death in Alabama in 1992, the work of American writer Richard Yates has enjoyed a renaissance, culminating in director Sam Mendes's adaption of the novel Revolutionary Road (starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet). Dismembering the American Dream is the first book-length critical study of Yates's fiction.

Autor

Kate Charlton-Jones read English literature at New Hall, Cambridge, before becoming a teacher in London. She returned to academia after having three children. Novelist and memoirist DeWitt Henry is a professor of writing, literature, and publishing at Emerson College, USA. He is the author of Safe Suicide and the editor of Sorrow’s Company: Great Writers on Loss and Grief. He was a founding editor of the literary journal Ploughshares. Monica Yates, a daughter of Richard Yates, lives near Flint, Michigan, with her husband and four children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Alabama Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 451g
• ISBN-13: 9780817358594
• ISBN-10: 0817358595
• Artikelnr.: 44215509