Tony Tanner

Prefatory Note This book is a study of some of the novels written in America between 1950 and 1970. Indirectly I hope it manages to say something about the novel as a form and America as a country as well. I should stress from the outset that my primary aim is to try to understand the American...

Offers a penetrating critical commentary on the works of twenty-five contemporary novelists including Barth, Mailer, Bellow, Heller, Updike and Malamud.