2007-05-12 14:19:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Joseph Heller, for sure.
Each of his books epitomized an era in recent American history.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller captures the male experience perfectly in an innovative and compelling story that broke all kinds of boundries and conventions without ever losing narrative drive. It's reverent, profane, beautiful, and violent. it's everything that life is and can be. It takes place in World War II, but it is a protest against authority, meaninglessness, reality, and violence at once and it is always true.
I also love Something Happened, a novel that expresses the ambivalence and fear that rules the white male consciousness in middle age. It's full of despair but never leaves the reader despairing.
I highly recommend his work. I've linked to an interview with him if you're interested...
2007-05-12 14:40:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Wolfe, Harper Lee, Tennessee Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald
2007-05-12 17:11:36 · answer #2 · answered by filmnoirgirl16 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I enjoyed Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. The only book she ever wrote. If you're looking for an author who wrote more than one book, I would recommend John Steinbeck and Mark Twain.
2007-05-12 18:44:07 · answer #3 · answered by Jonny C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
J.D. Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye is a classical piece of work, and the narration sounds so fresh and hip and interesting. The only things I'd change is I'd break up those really long paragraphs that are over a page long.
2007-05-12 15:44:13 · answer #4 · answered by Sharon Newman (YR) Must Die 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I guess I would have to go out on a limb and say William Faulkner. As I Lay Dying is an amazing work of art. Pax - C
2007-05-12 14:26:15 · answer #5 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
there's some...... John Steinbeck Ray Bradbury Wallace Stegner Sinclair Lewis Philip ok Dick or maybe in spite of the undeniable fact that i've got in elementary terms examine one in each and every of hers (the only novel she wrote), Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird" is a dazzling piece of literature.
2016-11-27 22:23:03 · answer #6 · answered by markell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen King by far. Then Tamora Pierce and Christopher Pike
2007-05-12 14:48:56 · answer #7 · answered by Marti 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Christopher Paolini or Tamora Pierce
2007-05-12 14:24:15 · answer #8 · answered by FantasyBookworm 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
James Purdy
2007-05-12 14:39:47 · answer #9 · answered by feverchant 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's between Hemingway and Faulkner. They have such different styles but still manage to say something essential about what it is to be human.
2007-05-12 14:56:12 · answer #10 · answered by mmc 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋