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“The novel was sharply observed, balancing mid-life regret with an unromanticized portrayal of enduring mental illness.”
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“Domestic dramas are already thick on the ground in American fiction.”
“He is looking at the stories of men who find themselves somehow displaced: left reeling, they are doing exceptionally strange things in response.”
“The long-trauma tease, lurking like a storm cloud over a drought-stricken landscape, drizzles across a few late pages, leaving thirsty readers scrambling for nourishment.”
“But this status must have condemned her to a relentless cycle of literary festivals, given that her new semi-autobiographical novel displays a microscopic interest in their inner workings.”
“These novels exemplify what’s best and most distinctive in his work.”
“Kurt Andersen, in his new novel The Breakup , does something few such books do (Jon Raymond’s excellent 2022 climate-disaster novel, Denial , comes to mind); he sets his stage not in some distant century when our own problems are the stuff of history, but a mere 19 years from now, when most of his readers are still likely to be around.”
“… “Kennedy was now thinking of writing ‘the big Albany novel.’ He envisioned something along the lines of Ulysses, the portrait of Dublin that James Joyce wanted to be ‘so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed’ from its pages.”
“And does it matter whether we think of the first three novels as a trilogy or, as Kennedy described them, simply as a ‘trio’ within his larger project?”
“But instead of a single day, Kennedy’s Albany version would encompass two centuries, depicting the Civil War, the growth of capitalism, immigration, Prohibition, the Great Depression, and much else.”