American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring

by William Giraldi

Book Overview

Over the last decade William Giraldi has established himself as a charismatic and uncompromising literary essayist, "a literature-besotted Midas of prose" (Cynthia Ozick). Now, American Audacity gathers a selection of his most powerful considerations of American writers and themes--a "gorgeous fury of language and sensibility" (Walter Kirn)--including an introductory call to arms for twenty-first-century American literature, and a new appreciation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631493906
• ISBN13: 9781631493904
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.6" x 8.2"