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Violence in the Contemporary American Novel: An End to Innocence

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Violence in the Contemporary American Novel: An End to Innocence - Giles, James R
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A study of violence in eight contemporary American urban novels, including William Kennedy's Quinn's Book. James R. Giles shows how these works, published between 1968 and 1994, convey a sense of violence as an epidemic, threatening to extinguish the aspirations of American citizens.

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Violence in the Contemporary American Novel: An End to Innocence 2000, University of South Carolina Press

ISBN-13: 9781570033285

Hardcover