As Archer digs into a present calamity, he must inevitably trace it through earlier generations of calamity. All the prodigal daughters, abandoned sons and shipwrecked girls-next-door got that way for a reason.
Nicholas Dawidoff
excerpt from
Ross MacDonald, True Detective
2017
The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/144537/ross-macdonald-true-detective-noir-novelist-investigated-sources-rot-american-grain
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