My review of Peter Dimock's Daybook from Sheep Meadow is now available at Full Stop:
It really is hard to imagine a novel more devoted to a polemical, political purpose than Daybook from Sheep Meadow (except perhaps for [Dimock's previous novels] A Short History for Leaving the Family and George Anderson). So clear is the goal of highlighting American perfidy (or more precisely, the perfidy of the American ruling classes), in fact, that it can be tempting to skip over the multitude of quoted passages and the minutiae of the [protagonist's] method as increasingly superfluous, more so than even the two previous novels, which are also characterized by repetitions, quotes, and citations. . . .
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