“I have come to mistrust a particular sort of novel: the sort that attempts to tell the whole story of a human life or

“I have come to mistrust a particular sort of novel: the sort that attempts to tell the whole story of a human life or

“I have come to mistrust a particular sort of novel: the sort that attempts to tell the whole story of a human life or human lives. Unless the novel ends in death, and even then I remain unconvinced: for, with a few magnificent exceptions, those novels by the very nature of their form — they must, finally, end — have left out enough stories to make at least another book.”

— Andre Dubus, “Into the Silence”, Broken Vessels

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