Author: GURA, PHILIP F.
Title: Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel
Description: NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2013, 1st. (ISBN: 9780809094455). Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013, first printing, 8vo. xix+330pp. "Rich in subplots and detail, Gura's narrative includes enlightening discussions of the technologies that modernized publishing and allowed for the printing of novels on a mass scale, and of the lively cultural journals and literary salons of early nineteenth-century New York and Boston. A book for the reader of history no less than the reader of fiction, Truth's Ragged Edge?the title drawn from a phrase in Melville, about the ambiguity of truth?is an indispensable guide to the fascinating, unexpected origins of the American novel." Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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