American Tragedy, 1972
AMERICA AMERICA
By Ethan Canin
Random House, 458 pages, $27
America America. Terrible title, right? Grandiose and sentimental. (And Elia Kazan got there first.) That’s what I thought, too—but it’s grown on me, and now I see that it’s suitably ambitious for a novel about ambition, suitably redundant for a novel that takes as its Read More
