He asked her what book she was reading.
"The Idiot, do you know it."
"No. What's it about?"
"It's a novel."
"I'd rather read the truth," he said.
"It is the truth."Bernard Malamud, The Assistant
I came across this in the Kindle sample of The Novel, Who Needs It? by Joseph Epstein. I now can't wait to read it except the library doesn't have a copy. Which I find really surprising. It seems as if every library would automatically want several copies of this one.
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