San Francisco in Fiction - Essays in a Regional Literature (Hardcover, New)

The twelve essays included here explore the relationship between place and prose - between San Francisco the city and San Francisco the territory of fiction. From the Gold Rush times of Mark Twain and Bret Harte, through the Prohibition Era of Dashiell Hammett to the Beat days of Jack Kerouac and the present works of writers like Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Arturo Islas, San Francisco has been blessed with great writers who have given life to the land in their fiction. These essays engage the history and geography, ethnic, gender, and class conflicts, and stylistic range of the fiction. They demonstrate how authors as various as Jack London, Gertrude Atherton, Frank Norris, William Saroyan, James D. Houston, Joan Didion, and Wallace Stegner have re-created and revised our understanding of this region.

General

Imprint:	University of New Mexico Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1995
First published:	August 1995
Editors:	David Fine • Paul Skenazy
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	243
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8263-1621-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-8263-1621-2
Barcode:	9780826316219

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