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Book Title: Program Era : Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 1.1in
Item Width: 6.1in
Author: Mark Mcgurl
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Popular Culture, American / General, Higher, Composition & Creative Writing
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Genre: Education, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 480 Pages
