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Post-Counterculture Tristesse

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To judge by the work of some of our younger novelists, the American dream has died even while coming true. Material prosperity, sexual liberation, unparalleled expansion of personal choice–these often make their way into contemporary fiction more as prob



About the Author

Carol Iannone reviewed Wendy Wasserstein’s Elements of Style in the September 2006 COMMENTARY.