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Apr 11
2006
04:04 PM ET
Which novel most changed your life?
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I thought I’d contribute–even now in 2008.
1) Old Man and the Sea–Hemingway was writing about much more than an old man’s quest to catch a fish…it was a psychological portrait of an old writer, fighting his critics and age and dipping into the collective unconscious once again to see if he could catch hold of the Muse one more time. The reason, too, in looking back at his Nick Adams stories, particularly after WWI, Old Man and the Sea is all the more poignant.
2) To Kill a Mockingbird. My father was a small town district attorney, whom everyone considered their own prosecutorial Atticus Finch. It was also one of the most beautifully-told stories about the goodness of a man whom we wish still exists–where goodness, bravery, and decency are indelible influences.
3. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison. I have never read as lyrical, magical, and powerful a book of fiction. And I am as white and blonde a WASP as they come. It proves literature hits you on a human level, as it should.
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