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Contents |
The reading life -- Children's crusade : J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye -- Love's wound, love's salve : Knut Hamsun's Pan -- "I don't believe that" : D.H. Lawrence's Women in love -- Romancing the self : Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary -- The mad energies of art : Saul Bellow's Humboldt's gift -- The murderer's fancy prose style : Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- The possibility of the search : Walker Percy's The moviegoer -- The saddest story, indeed : Ford Madox Ford's The good soldier -- "Live all you can" : Henry James's The ambassadors -- Into the blue paint : Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse -- The tether of origins : Alice Munro's The beggar maid : stories of Flo and Rose. |
LCCN | 2006929504 |
ISBN | 9781555974640 (pbk.) |
ISBN | 1555974643 (pbk.) |