Download or read book Equivocal Endings in Classic American Novels written by Joyce A. Rowe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-02-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original approach to four mainstream texts for the study of American literature and the novel in general. It examines the strangely equivocal nature of the vision with which each of them ends, with the central protagonists illogically clinging to their own transcendent image of selfhood.