19. In his review of Saul Bellow's The Dean's December, Amis wrote that "nowadays, our protagonists are a good deal lower down on the human scale than their creators: they are anti-heroes, non-heroes, sub-heroes." See The Moronic Inferno (London: Penguin Books, 1986): 5.
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