Ira Ringold, a huge, angry, passionate man, makes disastrous decisions throughout his life: his jobs, his marriage, his politics - and in the end even his friends betray him. Nathan, the narrator - over a long week of talking with Ira's brother years later - discovers things about him which he never knew, and which make sense of this disturbed man's life. I'd forgotten what a good writer Roth is and was delighted to rediscover him.
(Julie Higgins - bwl 30 June 2005 ) |
