Dean Koontz by Joan Kotker
Seven other Dean Koontz novels are examined in comparison to these as well. A biographical chapter sketches Dean Koontz's background and suggests ways in which growing up as the child of an abusive alcoholic has affected his work. Each chapter deals with one novel in depth while making comparisons to other novels in his canon.-
Michael Crichton
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Margaret Atwood
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Anne Tyler
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Larry McMurtry
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Gloria Naylor
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Arthur C. Clarke
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Toni Morrison
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Revisiting Mary Higgins Clark
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Barbara Kingsolver
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Tom Wolfe
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Kaye Gibbons
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Maxine Hong Kingston
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John Saul
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Tim O'Brien
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Scott Turow
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Chaim Potok
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Ken Follett
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Alice Walker
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Howard Fast
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James Herriot
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James A. Michener
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John Grisham
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Garrison Keillor
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Revisiting John Grisham
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Terry McMillan
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Erich Segal
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Tom Clancy
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Ernest J. Gaines
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Stephen King
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James Clavell
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Leon Uris
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Colleen McCullough
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Rudolfo A. Anaya
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Anne McCaffrey
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Tony Hillerman
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Isabel Allende
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Robin Cook
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Jamaica Kincaid
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Anne Rice
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Pat Conroy
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Julia Alvarez
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Louise Erdrich
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John Jakes
JOAN G. KOTKER teaches English at Bellevue Community College in Bellevue, Washington. She created and teaches a course on popular literature. Her essays on popular fiction have been published in It's a Print, In the Beginning, Women Times Three, Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing and Great Women Mystery Writers (Greenwood Press, 1994).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780313295287 |
| ISBN 10 | 031329528X |
| Title | Dean Koontz |
| Author | Joan Kotker |
| Series | Critical Companions To Popular Contemporary Writers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 1996-08-13 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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