Sport and the Spirit of Play in Contemporary American Fiction

Author/Contributor(s):	Messenger, Christian
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	05/22/1990
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The sequel to Messenger's (English, U. of Illinois at Chicago) Sport and the spirit of play in American fiction: Hawthorne to Faulkner . Covering the period since World War II, he considers over 100 novels, treating them thematically, with separate chapters on the fictions of boxing, football, base