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Title: The Body Electric Shorts Out
Review: This is the perfect way to take your Roth if you dig him in short doses. Roth has written a Saul Bellow novella and it shows why Roth should stick with this format. I love this book - it says its piece and gets out. The passages about the boy and the ocean bring you to tears. So lovely, so full of life, so full of wistful knowledge that you can try to stay with a beautiful moment but you're losing it as it happens. Every time I plunge into the surf at Ocean City, I think about Roth's transcendent meditation on the loss of youth, the loss of courage and the foreboding shadows of oblivion on the face of the water. I paddle hard and strong into the surf, tears in my eyes. Lovely stuff.N.B. As usual, his dialogue stinks but there's so little of it, you can skim over it and miss nothing.
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