City life as the epitomy of the American dream: a place where people take their visions for the future, expecting them to be made into a reality. This is how modern American fiction has approached the idea of urban life, but then has shown us how this vision can turn to disillusionment, destruction, destitution. In this book, Hollo skilfully analyses three of the great American modern writers: F.S. Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison and Bret Easton Ellis. Hollo demonstrates how these writers deal with larger questions of class, gender and ethnicity through telling stories about city life. People may...
City life as the epitomy of the American dream: a place where people take their visions for the future, expecting them to be made into a reality. This...