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"Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living - from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion - Generation of Vipers ranks with the works of De Tocqueville and Emerson in defining the American character and malaise.
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Character
Character-led, bleak, classical in form and epic.
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Philip Wylie
- First published
- 1942
- Pages
- 331
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart, inc., Farrar & Rinehart, Books on Tape, Inc.
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781564781468
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