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Author:
Stone, Robert, 1937-2015, author.
Title:
The eye you see with : selected nonfiction / [Robert Stone] ; edited by Madison Smartt Bell.
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
366 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
American essays--20th century.
Creative nonfiction, American.
Reportage literature, American.
United States--Civilization--20th century.
Other Authors:
Bell, Madison Smartt, editor.
Other Titles:
Essays. Selections
Contents:
Introduction to The red badge of courage -- There it is -- A mistake a hundred miles long -- The quiet American -- Uncle Sam doesn't want you -- Out of a clear blue sky -- No such thing as peace -- 1984 -- The holy war -- Disruption -- The man who turned on the here -- The boys' octet -- Keeping the future at bay -- East-west relation : summit on Sixth Avenue -- A higher horror of the whiteness -- The morning after -- Havana then and now -- Jerusalem has no past -- Changing tides -- Under the tongue of the ocean -- Does America still exist? -- In silence -- The reason for stories -- What fiction is for -- The way the world is -- Capture -- Coda.
Summary:
"The definitive collection of nonfiction-from war reporting to literary criticism to the sharpest political writing-from the 'legend of American letters' (Vanity Fair)"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0358310377
9780358310372
0358310296
9780358310297
0618386246
9780618386246 (hardcover)
LCCN:
2019033908
Locations:
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

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