{"product_id":"herman-wouk-arnold-beichman-9780765808363","title":"Herman Wouk: The Novelist as Social Historian","description":"\u003cp\u003eArnold Beichman's comprehensive study of the writings of Herman Wouk, one of America's leading writers, shows how Wouk's plays and novels exemplify an extraordinary and often highly perceptive preoccupation with American society in war and in peace. Situating Wouk in the same literary tradition as Cervantes, Richardson, Balzac, and Dickens, Beichman demonstrates that Wouk's novels have strong plots, moralist outcomes, and active--essentially positive--characters. The new introduction serves to bring Wouk's work over the past two decades into the reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaking extensive use of Wouk's personal papers and manuscripts as well as personal interviews with him, Beichman's focus is on the social and literary qualities of Wouk's work. In particular, he examines eight novels including \u003cem\u003eWar and Remembrance\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Winds of War; The Traitor\u003c\/em\u003e, one of his three plays; and two moral tracts on Judaism. Wouk has written four more novels, including his latest, \u003cem\u003eA Hole in Texas\u003c\/em\u003e, his twelfth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeichman portrays Wouk as one of the few living novelists concerned with virtue, and sees his work as against the mainstream of contemporary American novelists. These, he argues, have eschewed such elements of the traditional novel as invention, coincidences, surprises, suspense, and a moral perspective more presumed than examined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arnold Beichman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0765808366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780765808363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.34w x 0.36d","brand":"Arnold Beichman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058190676223,"sku":"9780765808363","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e4e08ab9-7a50-4e0d-bc6c-afb35d74b1e8.jpg?v=1685051159","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/herman-wouk-arnold-beichman-9780765808363","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}