The American novel and the way we live now Book

Lively, fresh, and irreverent, John W. Aldridge's views in The American Novel and the Way We Live Now will enrage some, delight many others, and provoke thought on both sides. Combining literary and social criticism, Aldridge probes the work of some of America's best-known novelists-Joseph Heller, William Styron, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, and Thomas Pynchon among them- in a fascinating search for the connections between the realities of contemporary life and the way those realities are dramatized- or, as is more often the case, not dramatized- in current fiction.