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A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose

Author B. R. Myers
Publisher Melville House
Category Literary Criticism
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Author(s)B. R. Myers
ISBN / ASIN0971865906
ISBN-139780971865907
Sales Rank698,403
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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"A welcome contrarian take on the state of contemporary American prose."-The Wall Street Journal

The funny and devastating debunking of high "literary" prose stylists, including Don DeLillo, Annie Proulx, and Cormac McCarthy, that caused a literary furor.

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