American Novelists

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    We are now in the Me Decade—seeing the upward roll of ... the third great religious wave in American history.
    Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)

    There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.
    Rebecca West (1892–1983)