Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel Saul Bellow, Margaret Drabble, Anne Tyler, and John Updike
Language: English
Published by University California Press, Berkeley, 1988
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- Hardcover
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Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. xxxii, 186 pp, acknowledgments, introduction: "The Years Teach Much."; 1. Safe at Last; 2. Healing Fictions; 3. John Updike: Rabit Angstrom Grows Up; 4. Ugly Ducklings and Swans: Margaret Drabble's Fable of Progress; 5. Anne Tyler: The Tears (and Joys) Are in All Things; 6. Saul Bellow: Inward and Upward, Past Distraction; 7. In Defense of Midlife Progress Narratives; index. First Edition, 1988. 1/8" v-shaped chip to top front panel fore-edge, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Blue cloth. Size: 8vo.
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- Title
- Safe at Last in the Middle Years: The Invention of the Midlife Progress Novel Saul Bellow, Margaret Drabble, Anne Tyler, and John Updike
- Author
- Gullette, Margaret Morganroth
- Publisher
- University California Press, Berkeley
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0520062825
- ISBN 13
- 9780520062825
- Edition
- First Edition.
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- LITERARY CRITICISM
"[This] book certainly makes you think. What is it that can happen in middle age to make it, as it is for many people, the clearest and sweetest time of life?" --Frank Conroy, The New York Times
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