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Ruth Mackay, Waiting for the Sky to Fall: The Age of Verticality in American Narrative (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2016, $89.95). Pp. 255. isbn978 0 8142 1308 7. - Catherine Morley (ed.), 9/11: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016, $19.79). Pp. 208. isbn978 1 4725 6967 7.

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Ruth Mackay, Waiting for the Sky to Fall: The Age of Verticality in American Narrative (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2016, $89.95). Pp. 255. isbn978 0 8142 1308 7.

Catherine Morley (ed.), 9/11: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016, $19.79). Pp. 208. isbn978 1 4725 6967 7.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2018

KATHARINA DONN*
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Augsburg University

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References

1 See Gray, Richard, After the Fall: American Literature since 9/11 (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Crownshaw, Richard, “Deterritorializing the ‘Homeland’ in American Studies and American Fiction after 9/11,” Journal of American Studies, 45, 4 (2011), 757–76CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Lewis, Charles, “Real Planes and Imaginary Towers: Philip Roth's The Plot against America as 9/11 Prosthetic Screen,” in Keniston, Ann and Quinn, Jeanne Follansbee, eds., Literature after 9/11 (New York: Routledge, 2008) 246–60Google Scholar.