Passionate Doubts : Designs of Interpretation in Contemporary American Fiction by O'Donnell, Patrick - 1986

Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher: Univ of Iowa Press, Date of Publication: 1986, Binding: hard cover, Condition: Very Good, DJ some wear.

University of Iowa Press, 1986. First edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Light shelfwear, mild edgewear, First Printing inscribed by the author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 213 p. Audience: General/trade.

University of Iowa Press, 1986. hardcover. very good: slightly bumped corners, text clean, binding tight./very good: rubbing, evidence of dampstain on rear flap, NOT clipped. 8vo 181pp. from front flap: "This absorbing new study discusses theories of interpretation and construction of the self in six important contemporary novels. In semiotic analyses of John Barth's LETTERS, Vladimir Nabokov's PALE FIRE, John Hawkes' TRAVESTY, Thomas Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, Stanley Elkin's THE FRANCHISER, and Flannery O'Connor's WISE BLOOD, Patrick O'Donnell argues that contemporary fiction takes interpretation as its subject and as the very impetus for its making." #01003.

University of Iowa Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. Examines the construction of the self in 6 twentieth century novels by Barth, Nabokov, Hawkes, Pynchon, Elkin, and O'Connor. 182p. Index. Notes. Review copy slip laid-in.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. xxxii, 181pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with moderate edgewear. Studies of Barth, Nabokov, Elkin, O'Connor, Hawkes and Pynchon.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.