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Title: One Wishes Much More from Mr. Roth
Review: I felt the novel to be boring, a simple rehash of Mr. Roth's earlier work, and sloppily written at that. This is too bad, for Roth, at his best, is nothing less than a genius: his novella THE BENNY PODA YEARS was, for me, his finest work since SHYLOCK. But the present novel fails to achieve Roth's previous level of innovation.
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