The Making of Americans (Dalkey Archive Essentials)Gertrude Steins monumental novel, back in print a century after its first publication. In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of The Making of Americans, and on

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translator Robyn Creswell has also included an annotated selection of the author’s Notes from Prison

landscapes and odd little moments in and around Eggleston's hometown of Memphis--an anonymous woman in a loudly patterned dress and cat's eye glasses sitting

Ellmann’s Joyce also removes the veil from the biographer―richly rewarded in public

“Having left this material for his writer son

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers

environmental jeremiads and cultural analysis all tangled together in one breathless sentence that would make James Joyce proud

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