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Naomi K
Jun 04, 2016
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I'm just tearing through this book. Still struck by how different it is from Grapes of Wrath. That book was his War and Peace, and this one is his Anna Karenina: equally long and equally observant, but written on a much smaller scale and concerned more with individuals than with summarizing an entire time and place.

The character portraits are so complex…

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