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>America doesn’t have great novelists
You could spend a lifetime on 20th century American novelists and never run out of good ones. America's novelistic output is competitive with any European tradition you like. Pic related for instance is a perfect 10 and hardly anyone even knows it exists.

hope you find whatever it is you're looking for; here's a tome that's beautiful to me, maybe it will do the same for you.