Melville’s novel Moby Dick may be the longest ghost story ever, teeming with specters of all description. Bradford’s impasto behemoth is emblematic of a wrathful Nature
determined to wreak its vengeance upon us. Bradford says of his work, “I am trying to find expression for the abiding love I have for my country even as the values that sustain it are seen by many to be evaporating.”
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