Characters of the 1950s from Holden Caulfield, Lolita, and Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea to Perry Mason and James Bond appear in The People We Meet in Stories.
Robert McParland's newest book is Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and the Modernist Novel. Also available is The People We Meet in Stories: Literary Characters of the 1950s. Discover it at your local library, at Rowman and Littlefield, or on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other online booksellers.
Beyond Gatsby
May 1, 2015
Beyond Gatsby has been published (April 2015). It will be featured in the book display at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston later this month. The book is about American culture and writers of the 1920s.