Word: blau
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...second time, I returned to Holden to write my thesis on post-war “breakdown” novels. Holden's voice, along with Esther Greenwood's and Deborah Blau's, was in my head for months. But read alongside other Cold War novels of anxiety and depression, Holden became something far more than the sum of his choice words: he was the first of several young protagonists to describe what it was to feel lost and aloof—and to be treated by the medical establishment for having such feelings. It?...