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'NOVEL REFLECTIONS ON THE AMERICAN DREAM considers 20th-century authors and the novels that illuminate society's inequities, limitations, and heartbreaks.

NOVEL REFLECTIONS ON THE AMERICAN DREAM explores the characters, plots, and themes of seven novels that deal with wealth, poverty, and the nature of success and failure in America. In an exploration that moves from the turn of the 20th century into progressively more contemporary surroundings -- and reflects increasingly diverse voices -- passages from each book are dramatized through haunting still photography that is inventively animated and coupled with original and archival footage. Woven throughout the dramatized excerpts and evocative images is insightful commentary from literary scholars and authors Gloria Naylor, James Atlas, Julia Alvarez, Erica Jong, and Gish Jen.'

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