American Women Writing Fiction
Subtitle: Memory, Identity, Family, Space
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: February 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780813101828
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History; Women and literature; Literary Criticism; Women Authors; Psychological fiction, American; American - General; American fiction; 20th century; History and criticism; United States
First sentence: Joyce Carol Oates was in her late teenage years in upper New York State in the mid-fifties when John Cheever sensed the onset of the postwar dissolution of value and coherence since noted by so many men and women writing in America.