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Title: The prose is the thing.
Review: The first three quarters of the book were good then the plot sort of fizzled out. However, when reading a Roth novel, the characters and the plots are not always well developed. But that's not the point. Its his prose that's worth the price of the book. His language is so beautiful that flaws in characters and plots are not nearly as important as the way his words fill the page. He has no equal in that regard.
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