Time Pieces

Time Pieces (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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Since 1942, Wright Morris has been defining the American character, looking at how people pursue and fail to achieve the American dream in twenty novels including The Field of Vision (1956) and Plains Song: For Female Voices (1980), both winners of the National Book Award. Morris has also been a critic, examining, in such books as The Territory Ahead (1958) and About Fiction (1975), how writers discover and mine the raw material of their experience. In his seventies, he turned memoirist, creating an eloquent three-volume autobiography showing how he has...

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