SOURCE: "Teenage Wasteland," in Maclean's, July 10, 1995, pp. 42-3.
[In the following excerpt, Lawson compares and contrasts the adolescent angst suffered by Paul in Ford's Independence Day to that of Chappie in Russell Banks's Rule of the Bone and discusses the literary merits of each work.]
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