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“... the effort of communication. Hilma Wolitzer’s landscape is the familiar scene of Middle America. Amanda Hemingway chooses to invent two planets at the remotest edge of the galaxy for her first novel, Pzyche, and the result is that characteristic blend of the recognisable and the bizarre that gives Science Fiction its attraction. People from Hiboryn ...”

“... and superficial realism’ in American literature. It was French condescension that celebrated Hemingway, Steinbeck, Dos Passos, Richard Wright, Erskine Caldwell, Dashiel Hammett and James M. Cain, Beauvoir was told, when the United States had its own sophisticated tradition of internal, psychological exploration; she was witnessing the formation of the ...”