A New Literary History of America - Kepler's Staff Review

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The Unnamed

By Joshua Ferris

the unusual :
happiness
marriage
a good life

the untimely :
snatched
from our shelter
our safe house of hearts

the unnerving :
changes
a wind whipped street
lifes cruel hard road

joshua ferris has courageously written a novel for all god's lonely children
his story shines even as it darkens
his characters sing even as they're crying
unnamed
unknowing

and finally
understanding

quite simply the novel of the year

undeniably

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A New Literary History of America - Kepler's Staff Review

Editors Marcus and Sollors have broaden the meaning of "literary" to include our nation’s many voices and how they relate to one another. In this cultural compendium of more than two hundred original essays (arranged chronologically from colonial times to the present) you’ll find contemporary writers insights on literature (Emerson, Roth, and Morrison), film (Psycho, Citizen Kane), music (Beethoven, hip-hop), art (Pollock) politics (JFK’s inaugural address, Obama), inventions (The Winchester Rifle), and natural disasters (Hurricane Katrina). This reexamination of America as seen through a literary glass is a truly new perspective that anyone interested in American pluralism will undoubtedly find fascinating.

Terry M