Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130

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Miss MacIntosh received some positive reviews when it was published—including one by William Goyen.Young here is wryly mocking the literary depictions of the Midwest that were popular during her day.

at a time when I had come to see the place where I lived—a region that has largely outlived its purpose—as a dead end.for her scarf was painted with spidery tennis players and tennis nets and ice-skaters skating on silver ponds and red polo riders riding red horses.Many critics have taken the novels heft as evidence that its author refused to make choices or perhaps was ignorant about how to do so.

But I suspect the problem is not the books length but its ambition—a fact that says as much about regionalism as it does gender.She bristled when her work was described as avant-garde; it was inspired by the oldest forms of Western literature.

What it does require is attention of the kind that Americans often find most difficult: the stoic focus needed for meditation—or for driving into the infinite horizon of the heartland.

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