TY - BOOK AU - Knapp,Kathy ED - Project Muse. TI - American unexceptionalism: the everyman and the suburban novel after 9/11 T2 - The New American Canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture SN - 9781609382513 AV - PS374.S82 K63 2014 U1 - 813/.609 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press KW - Authors, American KW - 21st century KW - Political and social views KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 KW - Influence KW - Suburban life in literature KW - American fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The canonical everyman: Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe novels and the challenge to neoliberal suburbia. -- The assimilated everyman and the business of forgetting: postwar living memorials and the posttraumatic suburb in Chang-Rae Lee's aloft -- How to live: the case for failure in Jonathan Franzen's freedom -- Dead man walking: Philip Roth's engagement with the everyman tradition and the reimagination of middle-class identity -- That's what she said: the everyman in recent suburban fiction by Anne Tyler, Gish Jen, and A.M. Homes UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781609382513/ ER -