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A Story of San Francisco
Nabu Press
September 2010
On Sale: September 8, 2010
Featuring: McTeague
432 pages
ISBN: 1171732368
EAN: 9781171732365
Hardcover
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The novelist Frank Norris is almost forgotten today, but in
books like "McTeague," published in 1899, he paved the way
for a whole generation of American writers--a generation
that included Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis and, less
directly, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. McTeague is a dentist
saddled with a grasping wife, and the book chronicles his
rise and fall in awkward but powerful prose. This type of
social realism, so contrary to the uplifting entertainment
of the day (and to Mark Twain's more fanciful, comic
novels), provided turn-of-the-century America a disturbing
mirror in which to view itself.
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