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A finely significant novel written with deep understanding of the facts and with a spiritual insight that does not flag even for a moment as it throws light into the dark corners of human nature Boston Evening Transcript (1918). A naturalist novel written in the tradition of Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair, Salt has interesting and provocative things to say about the education of American upper-middle-class males and about the power of sex to overcome a mans deep distaste for a womans personality. As a criticism of life the novel today seems simply the herald of a day when loud voices are less noted because all voices are loud. Today its vivid characterizations are its primary interest. Lester Adams, Griffiths alcoholic half-brother, whose days and nights are mired in an unchanging routine of newspapers and whiskey, manages to preserve a semblance of heart and an odd little spark of integrity. F. Scott Fitzgerald considered Lester, along with George Hurstwood and Tom Buchanan, the three best characters in contemporary American fiction. Griffiths paramour, Clarisse Rumsey, is cheap, lazy, and pretentious; she is dull and almost illiterate; she is absurdly affected, but she has t

Author

Charles Gilman Norris; Louis Auchincloss; Matthew J. Bruccoli

Publisher

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809310111

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities