TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson,Robert A.
TI  - Alone in America: the stories that matter 
SN  - 9780674068032 (ebook)
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Loneliness in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle? -- Nathaniel Hawthorne dissects betrayal -- Louisa May Alcott meets Mark Twain over the young face of change -- Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston answer to defeat -- Edith Wharton's anatomy of personal breakdown -- Midpoint: the lords of life revisited -- The immigrant novel: fear and identity in America -- William Faulkner and Toni Morrison plot racial difference -- Saul Bellow observes old age -- Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson mourn loss -- Walt Whitman finds the courage to be
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/nationallibgovin/Doc?id=10642579
ER  -