Book Reviews ; the Humbling by Philip Roth
Herald Express; Torquay (UK) › November 13, 2009
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THE HUMBLING BY PHILIP ROTH .. Hardback published by Jonathan Cape, Pounds 12.99 PHILIP Roth's 30th book is not one of the septuagenarian American writer's best. It feels like one-fifth of one of his better novels, not only in length but in content too.
It begins promisingly enough, with an engaging introduction to past-it actor Simon Axler, who might just be a vessel for Roth's own insecurities in his old age.See the full content of this document
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Book Reviews ; the Humbling by Philip Roth
But thereafter his tale becomes increasingly improbable, with the 65 year old not only seducing and conducting an affair with a lesbian 25 years his junior, but then engineering a thr...
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