Writing the 9/11 Decade

by Charlie Lee-Potter

Book Overview

Writing the 9/11 Decade investigates the relation of the novel to reportage, and the role of both
in shaping culture, by looking at novelists' journalistic responses to the September 11 attacks.

Journalist and academic Charlie Lee-Potter argues that novelists were entrapped by the
expectation that they would provide an immediate non-fiction response to 9/11. Beginning with
an examination of the sometimes mawkish writing that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501313193
• ISBN13: 9781501313196
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"