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On the Horizon: Gibbsville and New Leeds

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Mary Mccarthy and John O’Hara are two of the most consistently interesting and provocative novelists in America. They are so different that it takes the accident of a publication date to bring them together for discussion. Yet once having placed them side by side, it is difficult not to see a certain significance in their very opposition. Each navigates his own course, but both discover the same America.



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