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The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Focusing on both established and emerging writers - and with chapters devoted to the American historical novel, regional realism, the American political novel, the end of the Cold War and globalization, 9/11, borderlands and border identities, race, and the legacy of postmodern aesthetics - this Introduction locates contemporary American fiction at the...

Do you feel like you never have enough time? Do you feel like you're always busy? Do you feel like you need more time to do the things you really want to do? It is not your fault you are time poor but you can fix the problem. We all have 24 hours in a day, however, we live in a busy world. 'Common sense' time management approaches no longer work. Technology is keeping us connected to work 24/7 and it's taking it's toll. Like it or not, we live in an always on, always connected world and it is going to get worse. In this book, you will learn how to take back control of your time and your life...

The world reflected in post-modernist fiction is one of chance and randomness, devoid of historical intelligibility. Stacey Olster challenges this view by distinguishing American post-modernism--with respect to the views of historical processes that its practitioners share. Arguing that their experience of communism proved instrumental in shaping the historical perspective of novelists who began writing after World War II, Olster examines their change in perspective in the 1950s after historical events forced them to acknowledge the failure of the communist ideal in Russia. Focusing on Norman...