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This book is on the New York Times' list of the 100 best books of the 21st century to date, so I added it to my "to be read" pile and recently crossed it off the list.
Roth has something to say about a lot of things, tackling issues like racism, passing for white, Jewish identity, education, higher education's infatuation with itself and meaningless jargon, PTSD from Vietnam, and spousal abuse. Too often, when novels try to comment on society, they read more like essays than stories with actual c ...more
Roth has something to say about a lot of things, tackling issues like racism, passing for white, Jewish identity, education, higher education's infatuation with itself and meaningless jargon, PTSD from Vietnam, and spousal abuse. Too often, when novels try to comment on society, they read more like essays than stories with actual c ...more
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Virginia
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