American Death (and hope?)

Tom Stanton tstanton at nationalgeographic.com
Thu Jul 25 23:39:25 CDT 1996


> >The Roger-Mexico-as-Hope idea that I've seen before doesn't ring true for me.

> I don't see the  Roger/Jessica narrative line  at all as the source of hope 
> in the novel; this source of hope springs from other dimensions, the form of
> the book itself, among other things.

Roger/Jessica arent't the only hope in GR, but their love story is pretty prominent
at the start & near the finish. Looked pretty suspicious to me.





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