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What started off as subtle and plausible and a fable for our time turned preposterous. Clunky info dumps that belied the nature of the "memoir" didn't help.
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I would label this book as an alternate history novel. It takes place during World War 2 with Charles Lindbergh being elected president of the U.S. instead of Roosevelt and the turn America takes being under the control of a known anti-semite. It is interesting to speculate what could have happened and thankfully didn't. I believe this book can draw parallels to today in that we give up our rights without a second thought to how important our rights as American citizens are and how quickly situa
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I almost didn't finish this but I'm glad I did. It's my first Roth.
It's so heartbreaking, violence, when it's in a house--like seeing the clothes in a tree after an explosion. You may be prepared to see death but not the clothes in the tree.
They recruited the most supple and athletic of the cops to train as mounted policemen, and a small kid could be mesmerized just watching one who'd been lazing majestically down the street stop to write a parking ticket and then lean way over in the saddle so ...more
It's so heartbreaking, violence, when it's in a house--like seeing the clothes in a tree after an explosion. You may be prepared to see death but not the clothes in the tree.
They recruited the most supple and athletic of the cops to train as mounted policemen, and a small kid could be mesmerized just watching one who'd been lazing majestically down the street stop to write a parking ticket and then lean way over in the saddle so ...more
Compelling and finely tuned, with a narrative force that pushes you forward even as you yearn to slow down to avoid what you know is coming. A powerful story that draws some uneasy parallels to our recently concluded election, despite having been published a few years before, and a must-read for any student of the era.
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