'Beware of the novelist ... intimate and indiscreet ... pompous, prophetic airs ... here is the fact of the fiction ... an American tale where, naturally, evil conquers good, and none live happily ever after, for the complicated pangs of the empty experiences of flesh-and-blood human figures are the reasons why nothing can ever be enough. To read a book is to let a root sink down. List of the lost is the reality of what is true battling against what is permitted to be true' - Morrissey