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> ... Novels like “Huckleberry Finn” and “Moby-Dick,” he wrote, represent a vision “so sentimental, so outrageous, so desperate, that it redeems our concept of boyhood from nostalgia to tragedy,” a dream in which the white settler is embraced by those “he has most utterly offended,” those he has enslaved and colonized. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/08/love-and-death-in-the-american-novel-leslie-fiedler-book-review
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“Love and Death in the American Novel,” Reviewed

Becca Rothfeld on the literary critic Leslie Fiedler’s classic study of American fiction between 1789 and 1959, which was originally published in 1960 and was reissued by New York Review Books this year.

The New Yorker
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> How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him – he has known a fear beyond every other. —Chapter 19

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The Grapes of Wrath - Wikipedia

bs2Aug 19, 2019
"I'm going to live forever or die trying" Yossarian in Joseph Heller's _Closing Time_ and _Catch 22_
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