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he was hailed by William Faulkner as “the father of American literature” and by William Dean Howells as “sole

that it was “crowned by mysticism

fiction as the intersection of illusion and reality

Georges Bernanos (1888–1948) was a French novelist and essayist

not only the eternal salvation of their souls

The Thin Mountain Air stationery he was hailed by WilliamBy Paul Horgan New York State in the 1920s: a time of brisk and bright hope, with prosperity and progress rising as a vision beyond the fact of mortality to which all men are subject. For Richard, now in his sophomore year of college, life is a fruit ripe for the picking. But when his father, the newly elected Lieutenant Governor of New York, is taken ill with tuberculosis, Richard leaves college to join his family in New Mexico. There his own health