McTeague Publisher

Signet Classics

Recommended by Armistead Maupin, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #79 in San Francisco


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Armistead Maupin This is one of the first realist novels. It’s about the slow moral deterioration of the central character, an oafish and amoral dentist who begins a downward spiral when his fiancée wins the lottery. It’s a dark novel, with one of the darkest endings I’ve ever read. Norris locates McTeague’s dental parlour on Polk Street in San Francisco. The descriptions of the area are wonderfully spare and yet vivid. It feels like time travel whenever I pick up the novel, and yet it’s stunningly modern. Characters say “outta sight” and mean it in the same way it was meant in the 20th century. Norris writes... (Source)


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