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Domestic fiction, American. --- Married people --- Middle-aged persons --- Domestic fiction, American --- American domestic fiction --- American fiction

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Autobiographical fiction, American. --- Boarding schools --- Domestic fiction, American. --- March family (Fictitious characters)

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A trilogy of brilliant novels—The Sportswriter, Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land—that charts the life and times of one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction. When we meet Frank Bascombe in The Sportswriter, his unguarded voice instantly wins us over and pulls us into a life that has been irrevocably changed—by the loss of a marriage, a career, a child. We then follow Frank, ever laconic and observant, through Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, witnessing his fortune’s rise and his family’s fragmentation. With finely honed prose and an eye that captures the most subtle nuances of the human condition—all its pathos and beauty and strangeness—Ford transforms this ordinary man’s life into a riveting, moving parable of life in America today.

Middle-aged men --- Divorced men --- Middle class men --- Domestic fiction, American --- Psychological fiction, American --- New Jersey

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American fiction --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Sympathy in literature --- 18th century --- Domestic fiction [American ] --- Didactic fiction [American ] --- Politics and literature --- United States --- History --- Sentimentalism in literature --- Didactic fiction, American --- Domestic fiction, American --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Political aspects

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The beleaguered Joad family of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath struggled in an era of disappointed dreams and empty pockets. But how might the grandchildren of that Dust Bowl generation fare in today's more promising times? In this boisterously inventive book Alvin Kernan sends various descendants of the original Joad family on a postmodern journey out of California and into the excesses of American culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The experiences of today's Joads are as hilarious as they are discomfiting: they encounter in Kernan's America a world of democracy gone haywire and social institutions in perplexing disarray.In ten satiric episodes, Kernan visits virtually every important American institution-the family, education, religion, art, the military, law courts, sex, science and medicine, politics, and not least television and its advertisements. Unsparing with his barbs, he reveals both the fools and the knaves among us. Kernan's modern-day Joads find themselves in a distorted world where a surplus of democracy not only fails to free its inhabitants but also makes them vulnerable to the machinations of greedy and unscrupulous exploiters. Echoing the voices of such other provocative wits as Evelyn Waugh and Tom Wolfe, Kernan will make you laugh at the absurdity of American culture and-in all likelihood-at yourself.

Humorous stories, American. --- Domestic fiction, American. --- Satire, American. --- Fables, American. --- American fables --- American satire --- American wit and humor --- American domestic fiction --- American fiction --- American humorous stories