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An engrossing account of several major American novels and their alcoholic writers. Crowley's account of Tender Is the Night and Appointment in Samarra are, by far, the best to date.--Tom Dardis, author of The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American WriterAn excellent study of modernist American fiction from the perspective of American drinking practices and addiction theory. Crowley mixes biography, literary reading, and social and cultural history into a very smooth cocktail, and the result is illuminating and invigorating.--Marty Roth, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

An engrossing account of several major American novels and their alcoholic writers. Crowley's account of Tender Is the Night and Appointment in Samarra are, by far, the best to date.--Tom Dardis, author of The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer An excellent study of modernist American fiction from the perspective of American drinking practices and addiction theory. Crowley mixes biography, literary reading, and social and cultural history into a very smooth cocktail, and the result is illuminating and invigorating.--Marty Roth, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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John W. Crowley is professor of English at Syracuse University. He is editor of New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio and of Roger Austen's Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard, a Lambda Literary Awards Finalist. Crowley is author of The Black Heart's Truth: The Early Career of W. D. Howells and The Mask of Fiction: Essays on W. D. Howells.

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