Unit 1 Joseph Heller:Catch-22 1
Unit 2 Kurt Vonnegut:Slaughterhouse-Five 8
Unit 3 Vladimir Nabokov:Pale Fire 38
Unit 4 John Barth:The Floating Opera 47
Unit 5 Philip Roth:American Pastoral 54
Unit 6 William Burroughs:Naked Lunch 67
Unit 7 John Hawkes:Second Skin 85
Unit 8 Edgar Lawrence Doctorow:Ragtime 93
Unit 9 Robert Coover:The Public Burning 103
Unit 10 Thomas Pynchon:The Crying ofLot 49 125
Unit 11 William H. Gass:In the Heart of the Heart ofthe Country 147
Unit 12 Maxine Hong Kingston:Tripmaster Monkey:His Fake Book 168
Answers to the Questions 183