American Literary Minimalism
- ISBN-10
- 0817318275
- ISBN-13
- 9780817318277
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 196
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-01-31
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Press
- Author
- Robert C. Clark
Description
American Literary Minimalism fills a need for a comprehensive study of this twentieth-century literary movement. In it, Robert Clark explores works that are emblematic of the style by best-selling authors Ernest Hemingway, Sandra Cisneros, Raymond Carver, Jay McInerney, Cormac McCarthy, and Susan Minot.
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