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Understanding Stewart O'Nan (Paperback)
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Understanding Stewart O'Nan (Paperback)
Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature
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This first book-length study of Stewart O'Nan's work offers a
comprehensive introduction to his writings and carefully examines
recurring thematic concerns and stylistic characteristics of his
novels. The author of eighteen novels, several works of nonfiction,
and two short-story collections, O'Nan received the Pirate's Alley
Faulkner Society's Gold Medal for best novel for Snow Angels and
the Drew Heinz Prize for In the Walled City. In 1996 Granta
magazine named him one of the Twenty Best Young American Novelists.
In Understanding Stewart O'Nan, Heike Paul appraises O'Nan's oeuvre
to date, including his popular multigenerational trilogy of
novels--Wish You Were Here; Emily, Alone; and Henry, Himself--that
received enthusiastic reviews in the New York Times, the Washington
Post, Publisher's Weekly, and the Guardian. Paul argues that O'Nan
is not only a writer of popular fiction but also has developed into
a major literary voice worthy of canonical status and of having a
firm place in school, college, and university curricula. To this
end Paul analyzes his use of formulas of long-standing popular
American genres, such as the Western and the gothic tale, as he
re-invents them in innovative and complex ways creating a style
that Paul describes as ""everyday gothic."" She also offers a
critical examination of O'Nan's treatment of American myths and
vivid descriptions of struggling middle class settings and
individuals who lead precarious lives. Paul believes this first
critical study of O'Nan's collected works will be instrumental in
building a critical archive and analysis of his oeuvre.
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