Philip roth american pastoral book reviews

This is Roth's masterpiece, in case you want to read one or two of his books, now that he is gone. Apparently Philip Roth was a difficult man.

Philip roth american pastoral book reviews

Philip roth american pastoral book reviews new york times

Philip roth american pastoral review

Philip roth goodreads

American pastoral ending explained

He had a reputation, by his own admission, as a cad, a bounder, profligate. "Reputation," which doesn't mean it is true, though it may be. His ex-wife, the actress Claire Bloom, with whom he lived for something like 18 years, castigates him in a memoir that makes him look almost psychotically ruthless, I seem to recall from reviews (never read the book, heard it was awful and made HER look even more difficult than him; but I have no idea).

I read his early works, such as Portnoy's Complaint (and reread it recently) and Goodbye, Columbus, in the early/mid seventies and loved them.

Philip roth american pastoral book reviews new york times

Thought they were hilarious in my late teens and early twenties. He writes about "himself" in books such as My Life as a Man as not entirely admirable with respect to women.

I didn't read anything by him again for decades until f