American Fictions

"Elizabeth Hardwick is America's most eminent and worthwhile literary critic....Her life work, represented in AMERICAN FICTIONS, forms an indispensable link of understanding between the past and the future....Hardwick's gift for the exact analogy, piquant description, the pertinent aside, her ability to illuminate any particular, is informed by the indifferent sympathy of her intellect, trained steadily on the human nature of literature. If criticism is the companion on the journey of a reading life, Elizabeth Hardwick is the best company imaginable."Hardwick, Elizabeth is the author of 'American Fictions' with ISBN 9780375754821 and ISBN 0375754822.