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Although, from the point of view of sociology, the overt ambition of ‘American Pastoral’ – to imagine the impact on a good man of America’s fall from the family decencies of the ’30s and ’40s to the self-centred violence of the ’60s – outstrips anything Sabbath’s Theater attempts, the writing is no less fervid an excurse into the writer’s mind.

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I was a ‘reverence for life’ man – ‘see life steadily and see it whole’ – in my days as a lecturer in English lit. We are, I argued, if not exactly ‘saved’ by reading, at least partially ‘repaired’ by it: made the better morally and existentially.

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April 30, 2024

I was a ‘reverence for life’ man – ‘see life steadily and see it whole’ – in my days as a lecturer in English lit. We are, I argued, if not exactly ‘saved’ by reading, at least partially ‘repaired’ by it: made the better morally and existentially.

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April 30, 2024

I have made of Sydney, to which I sailed in 1965, a paradise beyond the powers of fancy.

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