This booklet argues for the moral relevancy of up to date fiction firstly of the twenty-first century. via examining novels via such writers as David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, and Irvine Welsh, this publication appears to be like at how those works search to rework the ways in which readers dwell on the planet.
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