American Fiction: The Essential Guide To

CATCH 22 Joseph Heller, CATCHER IN THE RYE J. D. Salinger, To KILL A MOCKING BIRD Harper Lee, NATIVE SON Richard Wright - This guide deals with the themes, genre and narrative technique within these classic America novels. A close reading and comparison of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for all three novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, a critical overview, a biography, bibliography and a glossary of literary terms.