Is this the best novel set in New England?

>>8099502
Honestly even Stephen King is better for that.

>>8099502
Do you have any idea how many novels are set in New England?

>>8099516
Came here to say this, plus Infinite Jest just for starters. Ethan Frome is a slog.

>>8099502
No, but her Age of Innocence might be the best gilded age New York work.

Moby Dick, duh

>>8099548
That takes place in the goddamn ocean.

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>>8099986
That's a nice book you've got there, Hawthorne. It'd be a shame if someone were to... review it.

>>8099613

New Englanders, at least until the end of the 19th century, were a mostly nautical people. Book starts in New Bedford, Mass, my father's birthplace.

>he thinks the ocean, its spurious depths, its reefs, its wildlife, are not part of its region

senpai you baka af