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My first Roth read and I couldn't have been more pleasantly surprised. Roth takes an All-American couple - the husband a beloved local sports legend, successful businessman and all around "good guy", and the wife - a former Miss New Jersey, who is not only stunning to look at but a smart businesswoman in her own right. They buy a beautiful farm in the New Jersey countryside where they prosper financially, love each other fully and passionately, and have a precocious daughter. The husband, who ev
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For an "American classic" written by a self-described liberal Jew, I found this strangely, profoundly conservative, borderline misogynist. It's about the death of one perfect, beautiful man his wife's American Dream, at the hands of their demented daughter and other women. Although I was annoyed by the first chapter at this tome to classic middle-American one-sided phallic love and nostalgia, Roth does have a way of seducing his reader at the level of the sentence. Great dialogue, great writing.
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Fantástica novela. Es casi palpable la deseperación desde la primera hasta la última página
I kind of liked the beginning, but then it became a literal slog. So boring. So repetitive. Ugh.
Nov 05, 2007
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it was amazing
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