To be blunt, I am not quite sure I liked this novel. It took me two checkouts from the library separated by a few weeks to get through the book. I did get sucked into the narrative at the latter half of the book. Having said that, this is also a novel that if you can get through it, it sticks in your mind.
The best way I can come up with to describe this book is Theodore Dreiser riffing on Dostoyevsky’s psychological drama in Crime and Punishment with the second half of the book a courtroom drama.
My problem with the book is threefold. Continue reading “An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser”