American Dream, American Nightmare
Subtitle: FICTION SINCE 1960
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780252070570
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; 21st century; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; 20th Century American Novel And Short Story; Politics / Current Events; English; Literary Criticism; USA; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; American - General
First sentence: Hacking stumps out of stony ground, draining malarial swamps, tending bobbins in cloth mills, enduring the heat and clangor of steelwork, carving granite mountains with hand tools to bear railroad tracks, following harvests up and down the country, digging coal from its seams in the earth: immigrants have joked about streets paved with gold, but most of them have known before they came that life would be hard.