the Great American Novel?

intricate timeframes 1922-1939

Duffy pp. 23-4. p. 437

Sugar Boy p. 6

p. 137 destiny is his father and mother meeting -- or is it?

Episodes of Irwin, Cass

soaring arcs of his sentences, like p. 281, sprinq as a girl

each chapter a microcosm

existentialist Jack ca. p. 328 story of Lois and again at p. 373

undercut by the twitch p. 334--but then rejected (weakly?)

p. 403 Hitler Youth--another flicker and then clear ending summer 1939

did the Scholarly Attorney die?