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"More than any of Morris's seventeen previous novels, the story takes off from the workaday world in search of the ineffable. . . . The question is never deemed worth asking, whether this life was worth living. There is nothing here of the noble Willa Cather nostalgia for a Nebraska full of giants, or the facile Hemingway nostalgia for a Michigan of pliant girls and truly good trout. By the time Floyd is murdered for his watch, he has swollen into a huge and lonely figure. His death can stand for that of the white man's America, or of the whole human race."—Time

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      Publisher: MQ - University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/1/1980 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780803281066, 978-0803281066
      ISBN10: 0803281064

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      Trade Review
      "More than any of Morris's seventeen previous novels, the story takes off from the workaday world in search of the ineffable. . . . The question is never deemed worth asking, whether this life was worth living. There is nothing here of the noble Willa Cather nostalgia for a Nebraska full of giants, or the facile Hemingway nostalgia for a Michigan of pliant girls and truly good trout. By the time Floyd is murdered for his watch, he has swollen into a huge and lonely figure. His death can stand for that of the white man's America, or of the whole human race."—Time

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