Author: Abigail Cheever
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820334294
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Abigail Cheever examines the ways in which social influence was thought to deform individuals in midcentury American culture. Real Phonies examines the twinned phenomena of phoniness and authenticity—beginning with adolescents in the 1950s like Holly Golightly and Holden Caulfield, and ending with mid-career professionals in the 1990s, like sports agent Jerry Maguire.