num_pages: 463
description: Offers a penetrating critical commentary on the works of twenty-five contemporary novelists including Barth, Mailer, Bellow, Heller, Updike and Malamud
language: English
title: City Of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970
titlecomplete: City Of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970
genres: Reference, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 31
publisher: Harper & Row