num_pages: 505
description: Compiles essays discussing, and in some cases condemning, such people and topics as movie violence, Margaret Thatcher, Charles Dickens, Michael Crichton, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, poker, and world literature.
language: English
title: The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
titlecomplete: The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
characters: Marcel Proust, Greta Garbo (The Prince of Beverly Hills), V.S. Pritchett, Al Gore, Kingsley Amis, Truman Capote, Jerry Falwell Sr., Evelyn Waugh, Gustave Flaubert, Leopold Bloom, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, William Empson, Oliver Stone, Thomas Mann, Paul Newman, Leo Tolstoy, Nancy Mitford, John Donne, Bill Clinton, Anatoly Kuznetsov, David Irving, Bobby Fischer, Norman Mailer, Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Iris Murdoch, George Orwell, William S. Burroughs, John Betjeman, Angus Wilson, Chinua Achebe, Harold Acton, Nicholson Baker, James Atlas, Gerty MacDowell, Nancy Reagan, C.P. Snow, Tom Wolfe, John Carey, Jack Henry Abbott, John Milton, A.N. Wilson, Max Beerbohm, Gore Vidal, Dmitri Nabokov, Anthony Powell, Karl Barth, Jimmy Carter, Lydia Bennet, William Cooper, Philip Roth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A. Alvarez, Thomas Harris, Brian Aldiss, Samuel Beckett, Robert Graves, Thomas Bernhard, Stewart Alsop, Leir of Britain, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Ruby, Christopher Hitchens, Peter Ackroyd, Beryl Bainbridge, George H.W. Bush, Andrei Bely, Yasser Arafat, Dolores “Lolita” Haze, Ronald Reagan, Michael Crichton, Steven Spielberg, Malcolm Allison, Abraham Lincoln, Bryan Appleyard, Thomas Berger, Philip Larkin, Lee Harvey Oswald, J.G. Ballard, James Baldwin, Humbert Humbert, Howard Austen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Cyril Connolly, Hugh Auchincloss, Christopher Isherwood, Ezra Pound, Henry James, Hermann Hesse, P.G. Wodehouse, Andy Warhol, Anthony Burgess, Saul Bellow, Elvis Presley, Rush Limbaugh, John Berger, Stephen Dedalus, George S. Kaufman, Malcolm Lowry
genres: Literature, Books About Books, Criticism, Essays, Writing, Journalism, Literary Criticism, Unfinished, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 1530
places: Ladakh, Amarillo, Texas
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Miramax