R.'s review
Operation Shylock : A Confession (Vintage International)
by Philip Roth
R.'s review
Operation Shylock : A Confession (Vintage International) by Philip Roth
R.'s review
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Philip Roth and...Philip Roth?
Some companion-reading to go along with Saramago's The Double.
Philip details, in the first few pages, his wrestling with thoughts of suicide; the discovery that the thoughts were a known side effect of a popular, oft-prescribed sleeping pill, a pain-negating pill for his wrecky knee surgery.
Enjoyed the phone call between Philip Roth (the fake) and "Pierre Roget"...
His wife, Claire (though we shouldn't mistake "Philip Roth"'s wife to be the Claire Bloom, right P.R.?) comes off sounding a bit of a shadow, a harpy. "Here your crown, Queen of the Harpies!!" Yeah. How dare she question her man when he decides to stay in an Arab-staffed hotel on the east end of Jerusalem. How. Dare. She.
I have learned one thing from Roth. I've been doing speech attribution incorrectly.
I've been writing it like this:
"Welcome to the jungle," said Axl.
Looks OK. But if...more
Some companion-reading to go along with Saramago's The Double.
Philip details, in the first few pages, his wrestling with thoughts of suicide; the discovery that the thoughts were a known side effect of a popular, oft-prescribed sleeping pill, a pain-negating pill for his wrecky knee surgery.
Enjoyed the phone call between Philip Roth (the fake) and "Pierre Roget"...
His wife, Claire (though we shouldn't mistake "Philip Roth"'s wife to be the Claire Bloom, right P.R.?) comes off sounding a bit of a shadow, a harpy. "Here your crown, Queen of the Harpies!!" Yeah. How dare she question her man when he decides to stay in an Arab-staffed hotel on the east end of Jerusalem. How. Dare. She.
I have learned one thing from Roth. I've been doing speech attribution incorrectly.
I've been writing it like this:
"Welcome to the jungle," said Axl.
Looks OK. But if...more
