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    The Great American Novel
    The Great American Novel
    The Great American Novel
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    The Great American Novel

    By William Carlos Williams

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    Despite the title, this book is not a serious attempt to writing a ‘great American novel’, which is a typical literature convention to refer to works that embody the essence of America, generally written by an American and dealing in some way with the question of America's national character. If anything it is the opposite - the book conveys the impossibility of writing such a novel through a satirical lens, by telling the love story between a Ford car and a Mack truck.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSharp Ink
    Release dateJun 16, 2022
    ISBN9788028207557
    The Great American Novel
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    William Carlos Williams

    James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American writer of escapist and fantasy fiction. Born into a wealthy family in the state of Virginia, Cabell attended the College of William and Mary, where he graduated in 1898 following a brief personal scandal. His first stories began to be published, launching a productive decade in which Cabell’s worked appeared in both Harper’s Monthly Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. Over the next forty years, Cabell would go on to publish fifty-two books, many of them novels and short-story collections. A friend, colleague, and inspiration to such writers as Ellen Glasgow, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell is remembered as an iconoclastic pioneer of fantasy literature.

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