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How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. Bringing into dialogue the work of a wide range of authors – including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, and Teju Cole – this innovative study advances a compelling new account of the political and intellectual fabric of the American novel today.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 256
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
Publication Date:
27 June 2023
ISBN: 9781526172044
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: from c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Michael Kalisch is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bristol
Introduction
1 ‘The Love Alternative’: Philip Roth’s I Married a Communist (1998) and The Human Stain (2000)
2 The Gift of Friendship: Paul Auster’s Fiction and Film
3 Broken Utopias: Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue (2012) and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude (2003)
4 The Borders of Friendship: Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011)
Conclusion