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The novel pivots on an issue that even Obama said was above his paygrade to render a judgment on. The issue isn't the moral center of the book, but it projects the book into the future indefinitely. When I read the book 15 years ago, I thought, hey, this is the Great American Novel that everyone talks about, but no one gives creedance to, either its existence or possibility. In the same way that Nabokov's Lolita may be a stand in for America the seductress, the protagonist An American Tragedy, i
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Great but long
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