“BOOKS ARE PARTLY ABOUT life, and partly about other books,” the writer Martin Amis declared, appraising what he considered to be the Great American Novel: Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March. “Some books are largely about other books, and spawn yet other books,” he continued, but Bellow’s opus “is all about life:…
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