Clayton Childress, "Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel "
English | ISBN: 0691160384 | 2017 | 320 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Under the Cover follows the life trajectory of a single work of fiction from its initial inspiration to its reception by reviewers and readers. The subject is Jarrettsville, a historical novel by Cornelia Nixon, which was published in 2009 and based on an actual murder committed by an ancestor of Nixon's in the postbellum South.