Tells of a story of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the grip of his unforgettable childhood. From the... more...author of OUR GANG.
Advantages: Very well written, an interesting perspective of "what if" and totally absorbing Disadvantages: Can be very slow to progress in places but this doesn't detract from the great story
The Plot Against America by PhilipRoth I must point out immediately is a work of fiction that uses the rise of National Socialism, the upsurge in anti-Semitism across the globe and the outbreak of the Second World War as it's main basis with the author using a very unique and gripping writing style combined with a very vivid imagination to portray a what if scenario through the eyes of a small Jewish child growing up in Newark during the late 1930's and early 1940's.
Although the story does not utilise a great number of characters, the main focus is on Philip the youngest member of the Roth household, his elder brother Sandy, cousin Alvin and this mother and father. The story opens during the final months of the Roosevelt Presidency with war looming in Europe up steps as a Presidential candidate the aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh ...
Advantages: Interesting idea, thought provoking, serious yet witty Disadvantages: Still in hardback
This novel is, on one level, about the effect of wider political events on an ordinary Jewish family in 1940s America.
Seven year old PhilipRoth lives with his twelve year old brother Sandy and thirty something parents in a crowded flat in Newark, New Jersey. Just after the Depression, the family live in a just about lower middle class Jewish neighbourhood where, says Philip, ?It was work that distinguished our neighbors for me far more than religion.? Everyone in the area including his parents and cousin has spent months listening anxiously to radio broadcasts and arguing about the future ? what will happen and what they should do about it?
The story is told as a first person narrative by Philip, looking back from some point in his adult life which is unspecified but we are told what happened to some characters much later in ...
Advantages: sweeping story, good plot, brilliant characters, hefty themes Disadvantages: strangely chiselled language
At the time of its publication few years ago, ‘Human Stain’ was received to immense critical acclaim and hailed variously as the great American novel of its time as well as a masterpiece in its own right. It is, probably, both.
I find Roth’s writing – the little that I know of it, anyway – often unappealing but impressively accomplished at the same time, and ‘Human Stain’ is no exception. There were moments when the sheer scope, richness and depth of what is, in fact, not a huge novel at about 360 pages, had me gasping with admiration.
For the Roth fans (but these would have read it years ago anyway); 'Human Stain' is a Zuckerman novel; narrated by but not really about Nathan Zuckerman, conveniently located for the novel's duration in a rural refuge near the town and college of Athena ...
Tells of a story of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the grip of his unforgettable childhood. From the author of OUR GANG.
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