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Title: American Pastoral
Review: American Pastoral was an American delight. While I am getting accustomed to sloshing around in my reading boots to Philip Roth's extravagant use of language, I I become enticed by the way he slices the "onion" of the character by peeling, slicing, chopping, reconstituting, mashing, and then doing it all over again and again.It helps that I was born and brought up in a similar neighborhood in Boston and at a similar time period. t is easy to relate to his environment. However, I think that if I were not Jewish I would be overwhelmed by his descriptive powers and extraordinary use of language. Instead of my practice of skimming over pages to locate the plot lines, I luxuriated in the prose page after page. I read this novel after reading I Was A Communist and Nemesis. It may be easier to read Roth if you immerse yourself in his style.
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