Daniel Grausam is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis and the coeditor of the forthcoming American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War.
On Endings is a first-rate, completely coherent, extremely
well-researched, and compellingly lucid contribution to our
understanding of American literature during the Cold War. This book
will be invaluable to people preparing to teach postwar American
fiction.--Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky, author of Containment
Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age
On Endings is a very fine book exhibiting two virtues quite
difficult to combine: first, a magisterial command of a substantial
body of literature on postmodern fiction, nuclear proliferation,
and the Cold War; and second, a laserlike focus on a single key
point or problem upon which much of the originality of postmodern
fiction turns: the problem of futurelessness, the actual prospect
of an empty world--empty, at least, of human beings. The
combination is very impressive indeed. The execution of the
argument could hardly be stronger, and the topic could hardly be
more important.--Mark McGurl, UCLA
[I]nnovative, elaborate, highly intelligent, striking in its
cleverness, and deeply provocative of big ideas about the
significance of postmodern culture and the arguably novel features
of life under the sign of the Bomb.-- "Contemporary Literature"
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