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The red hot vacuum : and other pieces on the writing of the sixties
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Writing of the 1960s.
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- Creator
- Theodore Solotaroff
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [1st ed.]
- New York, Atheneum, 1970
- Physical Details
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- xii, 336 pages 22 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00097368, ocm00097368
- Also issued online.
- The spirit of Isaac Rosenfeld -- "All that cellar-deep jazz": Henry Miller and Seymour Krim -- The fallout of the age -- The wages of maturity -- Harry Golden and the American audience -- Bernard Malamud: the old life and the new -- Jewish camp -- Napoleon Street -- Ship of fools: anatomy of a best-seller -- The integration of Bigger Thomas -- Irving Howe and the socialist imagination -- Wrestling with Trotsky -- The red hot vacuum -- The deadly James Purdy -- Alfred Chester: daring and doing -- Hubert Selby's kicks -- The development od Flannery O'Connor -- Witnesses of the Holocaust: Anna Langfus and Piotr Rawicz ; Chaim A. Kaplan -- Sartre: the view from the void -- The laughing German -- A kind of survivor -- Paul Goodman: the pursuit of paradise -- R.D. Laing: the uses of madness -- A primer for survival -- Meyer Liben -- "Remember those tissues they wrapped the fruit in ...?" -- The American nightmare -- William Burroughs: the algebra of need -- Paul Bowles: the desert within -- Interpreting Susan Sontag -- The busy hand of Burgess -- The young Camus -- Autobiography as art -- Holden Caulfield at Columbia -- Saul Bellow: the lines of resistance -- Philip Roth: a personal view
Subjects
- Miller, Henry, 1891-1980 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Malamud, Bernard -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Bellow, Saul -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Roth, Henry -- Criticism and interpretation.
- O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.
- Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.
- Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.