a ISBN 978-07-48622689 (pbk.-)

a ISBN 0-7486-22683 (pbk.-)

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number PS379

b Item number .B73 2010

a Personal name Brauner, David,

d Dates associated with a name 1968-

a Title Contemporary American fiction /

c Statement of responsibility, etc David Brauner.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Edinburgh :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Edinburgh University Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2010.

a Extent xviii, 236 p. ;

c Dimensions 22 cm.

a Series statement Edinburgh critical guides to literature.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Formatted contents note The space reserved for irony : itony and paradox in Don DeLillo's White noise, Paul Auster's City fo glass and Bret Easton Ellis's American psycho -- Silence, secrecy and sexuality : "alternate histories" in Jane Smiley's A thousand acres, Carol Shields' The Stone diaries and Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex -- Nes and yo : race, ethnicity and hybridity in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land, Philip Roth's The human stain and Richard Powers' The time of our singing -- Contemporary American fiction goes to Hollywood : genre in the texts and films of Cold Mountain, Brokeback mountain, and No country for old men.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American fiction

y Chronological subdivision 20th century

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American fiction

y Chronological subdivision 21st century

a Uniform title Edinburgh critical guides to literature.