Between Mailer and DeLillo: The “affectless person” in Robert Stone’s A Hall of Mirrors

Is it too much to say that there's a little bit of that person in everybody? I think it is too much to say that, but maybe there's a little in me. . . . Because of the lack of tradition and the general rootlessness and transience of American life, that character plays a larger role, is mor...

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Published inThe Arizona quarterly Vol. 65; no. 2; pp. 99 - 116
Main Author Hamilton, Geoff
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tucson Johns Hopkins University Press 01.06.2009
Subjects
American literature
Literary criticism
Mailer, Norman
Mass media
Novels
Radio stations
Stone, Robert (1937-2015)
Violence
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Summary:Is it too much to say that there's a little bit of that person in everybody? I think it is too much to say that, but maybe there's a little in me. . . . Because of the lack of tradition and the general rootlessness and transience of American life, that character plays a larger role, is more in evidence, and is, to some degree, celebtated.
ISSN:0004-1610
1558-9595
1558-9595
DOI:10.1353/arq.0.0040