autobiographical fiction

Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented, and successful young woman.

In this autobiographical novel, a young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father-- a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer.

Traces the childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood of Stephen Dedalus, a character based on author James Joyce's life. Includes essays on related history and contexts, a selection of criticism, and a bibliography.

Restores the missing text of Thomas Wolfe's novel "O Lost," which was hitherto published as the abridged "Look Homeward, Angel." Includes an introduction by scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli and textual, bibliographical, and explanatory notes.

Studies the cultural and literary impact of Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road".

George Webber, a man raised and schooled in the south, moves to New York City where he aspires to become a successful writer, but his ambition is sidetracked when he becomes tragically obsessed with the beautiful, wealthy, and married socialite Esther Jack.

Follows Eugene Grant in his desperate search for fulfillment from rural North Carolina, through England and France, to his ultimate return home.

In a series of interconnected stories set in the 1960s, Zosha, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, struggles to be free of her parents' memories and expectations as she writes stories that reflect her search for an identity of her own.