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Reading Ethan Canin: America America

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Critics say Ethan Canin's latest novel, America America, hearkens back to the work of Dreiser and Fitzgerald; we say there's always room on the shelf for another red-blooded American saga. A young man with working-class roots, taken under the wing of town tycoon Liam Metarey, is caught up in his patron's push to land a local politician in the White House. Then again, with Nixon as president and the country at war, there might be no better cause. But when the would-be president pulls a Chappaquiddick, all bets are off — or are they?

– John Hood

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