I knew about this book from some list of long American novels, but I got my first real taste of the novel from a pretty scathing James Baldwin review of it from an early essay collection. He revised his review when Ross Lockridge died by suicide shortly after publication, but his revision is almost more scathing. The review is somewhat unfair. I can’t say that this is a great novel in the sense of being a truly deep and earnest interrogation of its subject, but […]