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Vorda, Allan, 1948-

A conscientious recorder: interviews with contemporary novelists /
Face to Face interviews with contemporary novelists / Allan Vorda.

p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-89263-322-0:

1. American fiction-- 20th century--History and criticism--Theory,
etc. 2. Novelists, American--20th century--Interviews. 3. Fiction--
Technique. I. Title.

PS371. V67 1993

813'.5409--dc20 93-11347

CIP

Several of the interviews have appeared in similar form in the
following publications: Extrapolation, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Literary Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review,
New Letters, Sonora Review, Writers and Their Craft.

Photography credits: Kazuo Ishiguro by Nigel Parry, Max Apple by
Jerry Bauer, Cristina Garcia by Scott Brown, Jamaica Kincaid by
Mariana Cook, Ron Hansen by Julie Hansen, Marilynne Robinson by
Jerry Bauer, Robert Stone by Michael A. Smith, Hubert Selby, Jr., by
K. C. Baley.

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