Howard Fast a critical companion
Title:
Howard Fast a critical companion
Author:
Macdonald, Andrew, 1942-
ISBN:
9781573566476
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 201 p.) : ill.
Series:
Critical companions to popular contemporary writers,
Critical companions to popular contemporary writers.
Contents:
Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Howard Fast: An American Life; 2. Literary Background: American Gadfly; 3. Citizen Tom Paine (1944); 4. Freedom Road (1944); 5. Spartacus (1951); 6. April Morning (1961); 7. The Immigrants Series (1977-1985); 8. Seven Days in June (1994); 9. The Bridge Builder's Story (1995); Bibliography; Index.
Abstract:
Howard Fast, one of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century, has enjoyed wide popularity for his writing and suffered from great notoriety for his politics, but has never been given full credit for his contribution to the essential tales of American culture, the American Revolution, and immigrant acculturation. Although his novels have sold close to eighty million copies, this is the first book-length critical study of his work. In addition to an overview of his fiction, it offers close, critical readings of his historical novels of the American Revolution, Citizen Tom Paine, Ap.
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