A splendid book which presents more questions than it answers. It's about the American dream and where people fit into it, particularly in the characters of the Jewish 'hero', his disaffected daughter and his Christian wife. Their lives are split apart in one horrific incident, but . . . why is it told in the way it is? And is it the biography it ostensibly is, or not? What is Roth trying to do? Intriguing, extremely well-written and unputdownable.
(Julie Higgins - bwl 35 July 2006 ) |
