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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Dark and depressing, but an excellent read. (  ) tag100 | Sep 18, 2009 |  First book I read of this author. I enjoyed the book and his writing style although I agree with other reviewers that it is a little depressing and sad and I wouldn't recommend it to someone over a certain age (over 60 perhaps) as it deals with a very sad end of life. (  ) isdili | Sep 14, 2009 | So tired of Roth, like I am tired of Woody Allen, tired of Saul Bellow. So tired of the New York Jewish scene, which was also my father's, and my grandfather's. Tired of the impacted heaviness of Scarsdale, Hartsdale, White Plains, Mt. Kisko, the train up from Manhattan. When I read Roth, or watch Woody Allen, it feels like I am being loaded, again, with heavy, stained suitcases, and asked, again, to walk back, years into the past, into the sad, perfumed, self-regarding, determinedly romantic, culturally stifled world that knows itself to be rich, and therefore imagines itself to be both contemporary and self-sufficient, a world I managed so many years ago to escape. (  )1  JimElkins | Jul 24, 2009 | well written, interesting perspective nickster1201 | Jun 28, 2009 | Although the perspective is definitely Western, Philip Roth hits the nail on the head with this book about aging and facing death. It evoked so much discomfort that I rushed through it. Hmmm............ (  ) hemlokgang | Jun 22, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0375701427, Paperback)Philip Roth's 22nd book takes a life-long view of the American experience in this thoughtful investigation of the century's most divisive and explosive of decades, the '60s. Returning again to the voice of his literary alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, Roth is at the top of his form. His prose is carefully controlled yet always fresh and intellectually subtle as he reconstructs the halcyon days, circa World War II, of Seymour "the Swede" Levov, a high school sports hero and all-around Great Guy who wants nothing more than to live in tranquillity. But as the Swede grows older and America crazier, history sweeps his family inexorably into its grip: His own daughter, Merry, commits an unpardonable act of "protest" against the Vietnam war that ultimately severs the Swede from any hope of happiness, family, or spiritual coherence.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:05 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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