Bøger af Frank Lentricchia

"Two men, no longer young, and friends from childhood, fly to NYC--each with a secret purpose unknown to the other. They arrive just as COVID-19 explodes across the city's 5 boroughs. One of the men (white) has come to Manhattan to confront a theater producer who has made a coercive offer to his wife. The other man (black, former All-American football star) plans to confront and take revenge on his white girlfriend from college days--who left him for a white man. As they pursue their goals they are caught up in the hunt for America's most famous criminal. The black man, seeking revenge, makes a surprising turn. The white man, who has taken his confrontation with the theater producer to criminal length, may never leave Manhattan to return to his family. Manhattan Meltdown introduces a series of inter-connected characters who, ever as their lives are impacted by lethal disease, must continue to struggle with more conventional personal crises: uterine cancer, imperiled romantic relationships, and the deteriorations of advancing old age."--

Deals with patriotism and pacifism, justice and revenge. Critiquing government policy, citizen apathy, and societal justifications following the attacks, this title presents a range of opinions on such issues as contemporary American foreign policy; and the relationship between Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

Thomas Lucchesi Jr, is a college professor in the American heartland whose obsessions and compulsions include traveling to visit friends in their last moments of life - because grief alone inspires him to write - and searching for secret meaning in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick".

A study of the four major American modernist poets (Frost, Stevens, Pound, Eliot) in various historical environments (literary, philosophical, gender relations, the business of capitalist economics) with special attention given to their central poetic texts as they both reflect and shape our understanding of those environments.

A critical study of the work of contemporary American novelist Don DeLillo, which includes the comments of rock critics, syndicated columnists and scholars of American literature. It contains an expanded "Rolling Stone" interview with the author and extracts from his novels.