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  • Published: 11 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780385528412
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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Promised Land

Thirteen Books That Changed America





In this lively exploration of America’s intellectual heritage, acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic Jay Parini celebrates the life and times of thirteen books that helped shape the American psyche.
 
Moving nimbly between the great watersheds in American letters—including Walden, Huckleberry Finn, The Souls of Black Folk, and On the Road—Parini demonstrates how these books entered American life and altered how we think and act in the world. An immensely readable and vibrant work of cultural history, Promised Land exposes the rich literary foundation of our culture, and is sure to appeal to all book lovers and students of the American character alike.

  • Published: 11 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780385528412
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
Categories:

About the author

Jay Parini

Jay Parini has written four books of poetry and five novels, including Anthracite City, The Patch Boys, Town Life and The Last Station. He has also written a biography of John Steinbeck and a critical study of Theodore Roethke. He teaches at Middlebury College, in Vermont, where he lives with his wife and three sons.

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