Richard Thomas
Author
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Does an admirable job of examining Capote as a writer whose work reflects America of the late 1940s and 1950s more deeply than previously thought." -- Ralph F. Voss, author of Truman Capote and the Legacy of "In Cold Blood" Truman Capote -- and his most famous works, In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's -- continue to have a powerful hold over the American popular imagination, along with his glamorous lifestyle, which included hobnobbing with...
2) Ethan Frome
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ethan Frome, written in 1911 by Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton, is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. Against a backdrop of a cold, grey, bleak New England winter, a visiting engineer staying temporarily in town while working nearby, tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, who is an isolated farmer trying to scrape out a living while tending to his frigid, demanding and ungrateful wife, Zeena....