Factual Fictions: Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel

Factual Fictions: Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel focuses on contemporary American documentary narratives, specifically the documentary novel, as it re-emerged in the 1960s and later developed into various other forms. The book explores the connections between the documentary novel and the concurrent rise of New Journalism (a.k.a. literary journalism) in the United States, situating the two genres in the cultural context of the tumultuous 1960s and an emerging …