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Synopsis
Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from those of today.
Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul's moody, intense wife. Gabe's desire to be connected to the ordered "world of feeling" that he finds in books is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes' struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager love affairs. Driven by the desire to live seriously and act generously, Gabe meets an impassable test in the person of Martha Reganhart, a spirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, a formidable woman who, according to critic James Atlas, is masterfully portrayed with "depth and resonance."
The complex liason between Gabe and Martha and Gabe's moral enthusiasm for the trials of others are at the heart of this tragically comic work.
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Review
" A first novel of awesome maturity." -- James Atlas
" A rich book, full of incident, wry and sad and even in its most desolating scene somehow amusing." -- Elizabeth Hardwick, "Harper's"
" [Roth] has the finest eye for the details of American life since Sinclair Lewis." -- Stanley Edgar Hyman
"A first novel of awesome maturity." James Atlas
"A rich book, full of incident, wry and sad and even in its most desolating scene somehow amusing." Elizabeth Hardwick, Harper's
"[Roth] has the finest eye for the details of American life since Sinclair Lewis." Stanley Edgar Hyman"
"A first novel of awesome maturity." --James Atlas
"A rich book, full of incident, wry and sad and even in its most desolating scene somehow amusing." --Elizabeth Hardwick, Harper's
"[Roth] has the finest eye for the details of American life since Sinclair Lewis." --Stanley Edgar Hyman
Book Description
Letting Go was Philip Roth's first full-length novel, now reissued in electric new backlist style
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- PublisherRandom House Inc
- Publication date1962
- ISBN 10 039443305X
- ISBN 13 9780394433059
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages159
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