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David F. Howland's "A Snippet from the Greatest Generation" can be seen as a blend of two literary genres: what the 20th - century American writer Truman Capote called the non-fiction novel, and the German Enlightenments's "Bildungsroman," literally"novel of formation" - or more broadly, a novel whose major narrative is the moral and psychological growth of its protagonist. A Snippet is the restrained, understated, powerfully affecting narrative of a man whose childhood was scarred by the premature death of his beloved father and the want and deprivation of the Great Depression; whose manhood and character were forged in the crucible of military service in World War II; and who, like so many...
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