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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Illustrations | ||
| Introduction: This World and Others | 3 | |
| Pt. 1 | What Sort of Home is the Past? | |
| Forethought: Building a House of Words | 9 | |
| 1 | Eli Mandel's Family Architecture: Building a House of Words on the Prairies | 11 |
| 2 | Writing around the Holocaust: Uncovering the Ethical Centre of Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers | 22 |
| 3 | Taking the Victims' Side: Mordecai Richler's Response to the Holocaust in St. Urbain's Horseman | 33 |
| Pt. 2 | Strange Presences | |
| Forethought: Facing Up to the Past | 51 | |
| 4 | Strange Presences on the Family Tree: The Unacknowledged Literary Father in Philip Roth's The Prague Orgy | 53 |
| 5 | Philip Roth's Literary Ghost: Rereading Anne Frank | 64 |
| 6 | Ghost Writing: Chava Rosenfarb's The Tree of Life | 85 |
| Pt. 3 | Confronting Apocalypse | |
| Forethought: On Refusing to End | 101 | |
| 7 | Apocalypse Stalled: The Role of Traditional Archetype and Symbol in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust | 103 |
| 8 | An End to Endings: Saul Bellow's Anti-Apocalyptic Novel | 124 |
| Pt. 4 | The Collaborator | |
| Forethought | 135 | |
| 9 | Warring with Shadows: The Holocaust and the Academy | 137 |
| Conclusion: In Search of a Multicultural Tradition | 156 | |
| Notes | 165 | |
| Bibliography | 177 | |
| Index | 189 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Gary Hernandez
reviewed A house of words on December 20, 2015
A house of words
A cojoined biography of two superb writers and friends, each with one foot in New England and one in the West. Obliquely tells the sad tale of the decline of the American West, and how deVeto and Stegner fought to divert this sad trajectory (Spoiler alert: they lost.)
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