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Tables of Contents for Sight-Readings
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Author's Note
ix
Old New York
3
42
Mrs. Wharton in New York
3
24
On Washington Square
27
18
Americans Abroad
45
56
The Genius of Margaret Fuller
45
28
Gertrude Stein
73
14
The Fate of the Gifted
87
14
Fictions of America
101
72
Cheever; or, The Ambiguities
101
14
Citizen Updike
115
17
Paradise Lost: Philip Roth
132
15
In the Wasteland: Joan Didion
147
11
Reckless People: Richard Ford
158
15
Biographies
173
60
Katherine Anne Porter
173
10
Wind from the Prairie
183
21
Edmund Wilson
204
15
Norman Mailer: The Teller and the Tape
219
14
Snapshots
233
38
Mary McCarthy in New York
233
11
The Magical Prose of Poets: Elizabeth Bishop
244
8
Tru Confessions
252
19
Other Shores Something Out There: Nadine Gordimer
271