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Pages from a Cold Island Study Guide

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by Frederick Exley
About 4 pages (1,235 words)
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Much has been made of Exley's debt as a writer, to his "lost generation" predecessors — Fitzgerald, Hemingway — who wrote of Americans disenchanted in an earlier era. Still, Exley remains most fully inscribed in Postmodernism. To wit: One theme of Pages from a Cold Island is "its author's failure to bring the book to a successful completion. Echoing the postmodern im pulse.....

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Pages from a Cold Island from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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