Postmodern American fiction
Subtitle: a Norton anthology
By: [edited by] Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, Andrew Levy.
Contributors: Geyh, Paula.; Leebron, Fred.; Levy, Andrew, 1962-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 672
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States
Description: Excerpts from novels by writers, giving their comments on what they wanted to achieve. For example, in How to Tell a True War Story, a novel on the horror and grandeur of war, Tim O'Brien sought "to arrive at some kind of spiritual truth that one can't discover simply by recording the world-as-it-is."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.