Place In American Fiction
Subtitle: Excursions And Explorations
Contributors: H. L. Weatherby (Editor); George Core (Editor)
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: October 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780826215635
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Literary Criticism; American - General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; 20th century; American fiction; History and criticism; Place (Philosophy) in literatu; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Setting (Literature)
First sentence: When Robert Benchley was caught in the vise of writer's block, he sat down at his typewriter and pecked out the word The, thinking it "as safe a start as any."