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Title: American Pastoral- Book on tape
Review: While the novel is extremely well written, it drones on and on and in the end is very disappointing. We have to sift through many ideas and counter ideas but never learn what happens! Who was Rita Cohen? He goes on and on about her- yet we stay mistified. What happens to Merry? Does she die of starvation? Does she go to jail? We don't know. What about his life after Dawn? The plot is very thin and the commentary about american life is very thick. I didn't disagree with any of his ideas but instead thought, "so what"? In this story it seemed that the problems of the United States caused the problems of the hero. Not believable. Here is what we come away with: Mr. Roth is very bitter about the United States. Voila. Dull!
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