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Title: Essential American fiction!
Review: Thomas Richards had written one of the best American novels of the last 15 years. No one else except Pynchon has had the courage and vision to write as evocatively and brilliantly about the real forces (and catastrophes) that have shaped what America has become. Better than Franzen, more lucidly than DeLillo, Richards' flowing picaresque narrative leads us across the territories of family, of war, politics, wilderness and technology. A delirious but deeply human book, especially relevant now.
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