{"product_id":"9780375754821","title":"American Fictions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Just as Edwin Denby, Clement Greenburg, and Pauline Kael transformed the nature of criticism in the fields of dance, art, and film, respectively, Hardwick has redefined the possibilities of the literary essay.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliant tour of a century American writers, from the novels of Melville, Wharton and James to the fictions of Margaret Fuller, Sylvia Plath and Norman Mailer.  Twenty-five years ago, Elizabeth Hardwick's now classic essay \"Seduction and Betrayal\" helped  pioneer the study of women in fiction, both as writers and as characters.  \u003cb\u003eAmerican Fictions\u003c\/b\u003e gathers fro the first time Hardwick's portraits of America's greatest writers.  Many of these pieces double as individual reminiscences about close friends, including Mary McCarthy, Katherine Anne Porter and Edmund Wilson.  Hardwick has achieved a permanent place in American letters for her sharp and elegant style.  Her essays are themselves a work of literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012419666160,"sku":"9780375754821","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375754821_p0.jpg?v=1763692733","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375754821","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}