Download or read book Reconstructing the Family in Contemporary American Fiction written by Desmond F. McCarthy and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how popular writers are depicting either utopian and egalitarian alternatives to conventional nuclear families, such as John Irving, Alice Walker, and E. L. Doctorow; or, as with John Updike, representing conventional families as sites of ennui and unhappiness, but showing attempts to flee or reconstruct them as paths to destruction. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR