Letting Go by Philip Roth
Gabe Wallach, freshly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, and thus freed from old attachments, is hungrily seeking new ones.A rich book, full of incident, wry and sad and even in its most desolating scenes somehow amusing * Harper's *
Letting Go is further proof of MrRoth's astonishing talent...amusing and touching and shocking by turns * New York Times *
A first novel of awesome maturity * James Atlas *
One of the country's finest, most forcefully intelligent and serious contemporary writers * New York Times *
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize. Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099485032 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099485036 |
| Title | Letting Go |
| Author | Philip Roth |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2007-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 640 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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