This is a book about the end of childhood. Much of it isdrawn directly from a diary the author kept while he wasa bright but insecure freshman at Harvard in the 1950s.From these pages emerges a precis
Peter S. Prescott was one of the most informed and incisive American literary critics to write for the general public. Never content merely to summarize or to pronounce quick judgments, Prescott's rev
This collection of essays discusses some of the important books, authors, and literary trends of a volatile era in American and world literature whose cultural repercussions are still being felt. Pete
