William W. Starr (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Starr, William W. “Alnilam: James Dickey's Novel Explores Father and Son Relationships.” In The Voiced Connections of James Dickey: Interviews and Conversations, edited by Ronald Baughman, pp. 258-62. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989.
[In the following essay, which was initially published in 1987, Starr considers the major thematic concerns of Dickey's Alnilam.]
James Dickey's second novel, Alnilam, is definitely not another Deliverance, which created a storm of...
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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