Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists

Looks at some of the most important works of the end of the 20th century in light of what they do, rather than how they fit into any particular movement.

~Book News

Rebein singles out realism and regionalism as the exciting and enduring strains in US literature, a focus that is keeping the American tradition alive.

~Choice

Rebein claims that after postmodern fiction, American writing (since 1980) has returned to the fundamentals of realism, but with a broader range of perspective and techniques. Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists delivers everything you might think the title promises.

~Journal of Appalachian Studies

I urge anyone still puzzled by what has been happening in recent American literature to read this book. Rebein writes clearly and convincingly of recent books which moved him deeply.

~Leslie Fiedler, SUNY-Buffalo

A shrewd topographical map of contemporary American fiction.

~Mark Shechner, SUNY-Buffalo

This is the best guide I know to contemporary American fiction—thorough, incisive, coherent, readable.

~Wade Hall

A book worth reading.

~American Book Review