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LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: Destined to Die: A Novel about Palestinian Youth as Fighters and Suicide Bombers
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The Middle East Journal
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October 1, 2005
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LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Destined to Die: A Novel about Palestinian Youth as Fighters and Suicide Bombers, by Victor Sasson. New York: iUniverse, Inc. 2004. 252 pages. $16.95.
Reviewed by Sabah A. Salih
Long, long before George Bernard Shaw made a name for himself as one of the 20th century's most invigorating playwrights of ideas, he tried his hand at the novel, writing three naturalistic ones before realizing that the genre was ill-suited for his artistic and political temperament. What Shaw learned the hard way was that the novel, being in Virginia Woolf's words the "most pliable of all forms," was at a disadvantage when it came to conflicts still in the process of unfolding. The ...
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