Tracking the ever-elusive Great American Novel

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< was reviewed in these pages byMargaret Atwood. "If there were any doubts 
about her stature as a pre-eminent American novelist, of her own or any other 
generation," Atwood wrote, " 'Beloved' will put them to rest. In three words or 
less, it's a hair-raiser." Atwood continued: " 'Beloved' is written in an 
antiminimalist prose that is by turns rich, graceful, eccentric, rough, lyrical, 
sinuous, colloquial and very much to the point." >>

What Spy magazine used to call "Log-rolling in our time."