Dlb 2: American Novelists Since World War II, First Series

by Richard Layman

Book Overview

In the three decades following World War II, the novel as a literary form flourished in America. As the baby boom generation matured, so did the market for fiction. By the mid-70s, nearly 1, 800 hardcover books of fiction were being published every year along with a comparable number of paperbacks. The proliferation of paperbacks brought low prices and huge press runs. The resulting mass marketing of novels brought a new visibility to works of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810309149
• ISBN13: 9780810309142
• Release Date: December 1978
• Publisher: Gale Cengage
• Length: 557 Pages
• Weight: 4.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.7" x 11.2"