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The Fleeting “9/11 Effect” in The Good Life and Lunar Park
- Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
- Midwest Modern Language Association
- Volume 44, Number 2, Fall 2011
- pp. 111-125
- 10.1353/mml.2011.0002
- Article
- Additional Information
In this sense, novels like The Good Life and Lunar Park reflect in miniature several aspects of the relationship our country has developed to 9/1 1. As devastating and important an event as 9/11 was, the posttraumatic moments of enlightened unity were fleeting and the inspiration to draw upon our nation’s better impulses devolved quickly into short-sighted, even self-destructive, policies.