Saturday, November 29, 2008
Philip Roth's last novel
Philip Roth's last novel, Indignation, is, as usual, seamless, fluid, perfectly accomplished. The setting is familiar and so are the themes - sexual transgression, individual freedom set against social constraints, coming of age, the emancipation of american jews in the 1950's - but Roth manages nevertheless to captivate and hold the reader's attention with his perfect technique and his continuing capacity for ferocity.
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