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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181) and index
Nathanael West: desire, art, and cynicism -- Budd Schulberg: unionism and sadomasochism -- Raymond Chandler: individualism and populism -- Joan Didion: gender and Lacanian tragedy -- Bruce Wagner: double consciousness and the death of desire -- Elmore Leonard: realism after the end of ideology