Any recommendations? Have loved these;
Paris Trout and Deadwood, by Peter Dexter
Alias Grace and Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Canadian)
in A Midnight Clear
anything by Edith Wharton
bit iffy about Henry James
read one by William Faulkner I liked but forget the title
Another vote for Edith Wharton. Anne Tyler has done some good stuff - e.g The Accidental Tourist
The Great Gatsby, of course.
Hemingway, Death In The Afternoon
I like a bit of Carl Hiaasen. James Elroy too.
Ellroy, even.
Bonfire of the vanities - Wolfe
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Sinclair Lewis - It Can’t Happen Here
First half or so is the Trump playbook. Other half could have been.
Although Hemingway is the greatest of American novelists all the novels are about Europe so Im not sure they are really “Great American Novels”. Death on the afternoon is about Spain.
I would agree that the Old Man And the Sea qualifies as the Great Novella of the Americas.
And for the GAN itself - Gatsby obviously. And maybe Moby Dick and / or Huckleberry Finn.
I enjoyed: Where The Crawdads Sing
It was a deluge of a winter in the Salinas valley, wet and wonderful. The rains fell gently and soaked in and did not freshet.
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