Unit 1 Joseph Heller:Catch-22

Unit 2 Kurt Vonnegut:Slaughterhouse-Five

Unit 3 Vladimir Nabokov:Pale Fire

Unit 4 John Barth:The Floating Opera

Unit 5 Philip Roth:American Pastoral

Unit 6 William Burroughs:Naked Lunch

Unit 7 John Hawkes:Second Skin

Unit 8 Edgar Lawrence Doctorow:Ragtime

Unit 9 Robert Coover:The Public Burning

Unit 10 Thomas Pynchon:The Crying ofLot 49

Unit 11 William H. Gass:In the Heart of the Heart ofthe Country

Unit 12 Maxine Hong Kingston:Tripmaster Monkey:His Fake Book

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