Publisher's Synopsis
Ranging across the literary and cultural landscapes of the United States, Great Britain, and Australia, FOR ARGUMENT'S SAKE brings together forty-five essays and reviews on an array of writers and other artists including: Steven Amsterdam, Saul Bellow, J.M. Coetzee, Walter van Tilburg Clark, Sophie Cunningham, Joan Didion, E.L. Doctorow, Dave Eggers, Delia Falconer, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Washington Irving, Edward P. Jones, Claire Keegan, Jamaica Kincaid, Lisa Lang, Cormac McCarthy, Tom McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Herman Melville, Phillip Meyer, Vladimir Nabokov, Dylan Nice, Michael Sala, Mary Shelley, Randolph Stow, Mark Twain, David Foster Wallace, Eudora Welty, Patrick White, John Williams, and Tim Winton.
