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Article: Leaving Tony Soprano's world

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June 10, 2007
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THERE HAS never been anything quite like "The Sopranos." The series that David Chase created for HBO has retrieved something of the experience newspaper readers once savored, back when great novels by Dickens, Dostoyevsky, or Balzac appeared in weekly installments. Whatever Sunday's final episode may bring, the show's legacy is already evident. It has enriched American popular culture with its rare blending of complex characters, social satire, and unsparing irony.

"The Sopranos" accompanies the lumbering, wily, conflicted Tony Soprano through the coils of two family dramas - that of his domestic family and that of his Mafia crew. To an unsettling degree, he is like many Americans in ...

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