The American Novel Made Us

The American Novel Made UsI was Literally made, shaped, whetted and given a world with a purpose by the American realistic novel of the mid-to late 1930s. From the age of 14 to 17, I gorged myself on the works of Thomas wolfe (beginning with of Time and the River, catching up with Angel and then keeping pace till big Tom's stunning end). Ernest Hemingway, william Faulkner. James T. Farrell, John Steinbeck, John O'Hara. James Cain, Richard Wright. John Dos Passos. Erskine Caldwell, Jerome Weidman...