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The Field of Vision

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The Field of Vision
First edition cover
AuthorWright Morris
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarcourt, Brace
Publication date1956
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages251 pp

The Field of Vision is a 1956 novel by Wright Morris, written in the style of high modernism. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1957.[1]

References

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  1. "National Book Awards - 1957". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
    (With essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
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Further reading

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  • Saluri, Diana. "Language as Pioneering in Wright Morris's The Field of Vision and Ceremony in Lone Tree". Emporia State Institutional Repository Collection. Emporia State University. pp. 19–24. Retrieved August 22, 2026.
  • Hall, Joe (June 1991). "Wright Morris' The Field of Vision: A Re‐reading of the Scanlon Story". Journal of American Culture. 14 (2): 53–58. doi:10.1111/j.1542-734X.1991.00053.x. ISSN 0191-1813.
  • Bredahl, A Carl (Summer 2004). ""What's 'Western' about Morris's The Field of Vision," My Students Ask". The Midwest Quarterly. 45 (4). Pittsburg: 354–368, 327 via ProQuest.