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May 15, 2020
Robert Stone’s fiery America
There are writers who appear, possibly once in a generation, who seem to galvanize time’s eerie striations and craft novels that are vortices, focusing the chaos of public life into a pattern, a self-identifying “direction.”
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
There are writers who appear, possibly once in a generation, who seem to galvanize time's eerie striations and craft novels that are vortices, focusing the chaos of public life into a pattern, a self-identifying "direction." In the 30s, artists like Dreiser and James T. Farrell painted with tawny brushes, forming a sort of ashcan school of the poor and dispossessed in the eastern cities. By mid-century, Irwin Shaw, John Updike and Saul Bellow breathed sparkle and angs...
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