In Fact: Essays on Writers and Writing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Pantheon Books
- Publish date: 01/01/2001
Description:
In Fact collects the best of Thomas Mallon's superb criticism from the past twenty-two years -- essays that appeared in his GQ column, "Doubting Thomas", and in The New York Times Book Review, The American Scholar, The New Yorker, and Harper's, among other publications. Here are his evaluations of the work of contemporary writers such as Nicholson Baker, Peter Carey, Tom Wolfe, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, and Robert Stone, and reassessments of such earlier twentieth-century writers as John O'Hara, Sinclair Lewis, Truman Capote, and Mary McCarthy. Mallon also considers an array of odd literary genres and phenomena -- including book indexes, obituaries, plagiarism, cancelled checks, fan mail, and author tours. And he turns his sharp eye on historical fiction (his own genre) as well as on the history, practice, and future of memoir.
Expand description
Smart, unorthodox, and impassioned, this collection is an integral piece of an important literary career and an altogether marvelous read.
Product notice
Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
| Seller | Condition | Comments | Price |
|
Half Price Books Inc
|
Very Good
|
$4.37
|
|
HPB-Ruby
|
Very Good
|
$6.73
|
|
Dunaway Books
|
Good
|
$8.43
|
|
Turn-The-Page Books
|
Very Good
|
$9.00
|
|
Abacus Bookshop
|
Like New
|
$11.25
|
|
Priceless Books
|
Very Good
|
$13.50
|
|
Southampton Sag Harbor Books
|
Like New
|
$22.50
|
|
Between the Covers-Rare Books
|
Like New |
$33.75
|
|
Bonita
|
Good
|
$34.88
|
|
The Book Trader
|
Very Good |
$50.62
|
|
Bonita
|
New
|
$52.47
|
|
RARE BOOK CELLAR
|
Very Good |
$59.57
|
|
Just one more Chapter
|
New |
$66.73
|
Please Wait