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Fact and Fiction

The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel

John Hollowell

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/2017
Pages: 204
Subject: Language Arts and Disciplines | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469622880

DESCRIPTION

Journalists and novelists responded to the pervasive social changes of the 1960s in America with a variety of experiments in nonfiction. Those who have praised the vitality of the new journalism have seen it as a fusion of the journalist's passion for detail and the novelist's moral vision. Hollowell presents a critically sharp portrait of what the new journalists and novelists are doing and why. The author concludes that future writing will further obscure the difference between fact and fiction.

Originally published in 1977.

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