num_pages: 528
description: This is a stunning collection of essays.
language: English
title: The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
titlecomplete: The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
characters: Gore Vidal, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Nicholson Baker, Bryan Appleyard, William S. Burroughs, Andrei Bely, Paul Newman, John Milton, Leo Tolstoy, Jerry Falwell Sr., Dolores “Lolita” Haze, Humbert Humbert, Yasser Arafat, Elvis Presley, Gustave Flaubert, Saul Bellow, Lydia Bennet, Truman Capote, William Cooper, Ezra Pound, Thomas Harris, Ronald Reagan, Michael Crichton, V.S. Pritchett, A.N. Wilson, Nancy Mitford, Jack Ruby, Bill Clinton, Thomas Mann, Norman Mailer, Anthony Powell, Abraham Lincoln, John Betjeman, Christopher Hitchens, Oliver Stone, Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Jack Henry Abbott, Gerty MacDowell, Beryl Bainbridge, Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Carter, John Berger, George H.W. Bush, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Harold Acton, Hugh Auchincloss, James Atlas, Howard Austen, Cyril Connolly, Al Gore, Thomas Bernhard, Henry James, Chinua Achebe, George Orwell, George S. Kaufman, Evelyn Waugh, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Andy Warhol, Marcel Proust, Robert Graves, Hermann Hesse, Leir of Britain, Brian Aldiss, Samuel Beckett, Leopold Bloom, Steven Spielberg, Stewart Alsop, Angus Wilson, A. Alvarez, Nancy Reagan, Lee Harvey Oswald, Iris Murdoch, P.G. Wodehouse, Rush Limbaugh, Greta Garbo (The Prince of Beverly Hills), Philip Larkin, Anthony Burgess, Malcolm Allison, William Empson, David Irving, C.P. Snow, Kurt Vonnegut, John Carey, James Joyce, Christopher Isherwood, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Berger, Dmitri Nabokov, Malcolm Lowry, James Baldwin, J.G. Ballard, Karl Barth, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ackroyd, John Donne, Max Beerbohm, Bobby Fischer, John Updike, Stephen Dedalus
genres: Writing, Books About Books, British Literature, Unfinished, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Criticism, Journalism, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 1531
places: Ladakh, Amarillo, Texas
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Vintage