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The Big Read: Can a Single Book Sum Up a Nation?
The Dream of the Great American Novel. By Lawrence Buell. Harvard University Press, 2014. 500p. HB, $39.95.
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Issue: Winter 2014 / Volume 90/1
Published: January 6, 2014
Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic for The Washington Post and a frequent contributor to several literary and cultural periodicals. He is also the author of the memoir An Open Book (Norton, 2003) and of four collections of essays: Readings (Norton, 2003), Bound to Please (Norton, 2004), Book...