Word: roth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Letting Go, by Philip Roth. A bright new star of U.S. letters tries the big novel and nearly brings...
Letting Go, by Philip Roth. This overlong but nonetheless impressive novel about young college faculty members shows off the author's remarkable ear for dead-ringer dialogue and his sharpeye characterization of unhappy people...
...FICTION 1. Ship of Fools, Porter (1, last week) 2. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (3) 3. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (2) 4. The Reivers, Faulkner (4) 5. Another Country, Baldwin (7) 6. The Prize, Wallace (6) 7. Uhuru, Ruark (5) 8. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (10) 9. Letting Go, Roth (8) 10. Portrait in Brownstone, Auchincloss (9) NONFICTION 1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1) 2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2) 3. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (4) 4. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (5) 5. The Guns of August, Tuchman (3) 6. Who's in Charge Here?, Gardner...
...zannes from elsewhere) turned up last-April, apparently after some undercover ransoming by insurance companies, in an abandoned car in Marseille. Though it had escaped serious damage when the thieves pulled it from its frame, the painting needed a new canvas backing. Kansas City Art Conservator James Roth set to work, found an unusually thick layer of glue beneath the torn fabric. He softened the rock-hard glue with wet packs, picked away with tweezers, gradually revealing the white-kerchiefed head of a woman, its strongly modeled face accented by deep red shadows...
Letting Go, by Philip Roth. The author, lured by the sirens of meaninglessness, gives too much attention to a tedious hero who finds life empty. Still, Roth's eye for irony and ear for dialogue are among the best, and they make his long novel of the university young well worth reading...