Modern American Prose: Fifteen Writers
- ISBN-10
- 0394344545
- ISBN-13
- 9780394344546
- Series
- Modern American Prose
- Category
- American prose literature
- Pages
- 565
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Random House (NY)
- Authors
- Robert DiYanni, John Clifford
Description
A key drama of our own day is Ingmar Bergman's movie Scenes from a Marriage . In it we see a husband and wife who have good jobs and a well - furnished home but who are unable to communicate " —to cite one of the signature words of the ...
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