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Philip Roth Reading from Letting Go

by Philip Roth
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This recording, made early in Roth's career, is drawn from his first novel, Letting Go. Set in the 1950s, it portrays the social constraints of the period as they affect several graduate students at critical points in their lives. The scene Roth reads shows the rather diffident Paul Herz confronted by two of his ancient rooming-house neighbors who have a favor to ask. As the critic John Ciardi wrote, "Three actors with separately trained voices could not have read it better. If Roth were not so good a writer it would be the world's duty to force him onto the stage."

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Series: Great American Authors Read from Their Works Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781483019406
  • File size: 6485 KB
  • Release date: April 15, 2014
  • Duration: 00:13:30

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  • ISBN: 9781483019406
  • File size: 6487 KB
  • Release date: April 15, 2014
  • Duration: 00:14:30
  • Number of parts: 1

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This recording, made early in Roth's career, is drawn from his first novel, Letting Go. Set in the 1950s, it portrays the social constraints of the period as they affect several graduate students at critical points in their lives. The scene Roth reads shows the rather diffident Paul Herz confronted by two of his ancient rooming-house neighbors who have a favor to ask. As the critic John Ciardi wrote, "Three actors with separately trained voices could not have read it better. If Roth were not so good a writer it would be the world's duty to force him onto the stage."

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Fiction Literature
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Blackstone Publishing
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781483019406
    File size: 6485 KB
    Release date: April 15, 2014
    Duration: 00:13:30

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781483019406
    File size: 6487 KB
    Release date: April 15, 2014
    Duration: 00:14:30
    Number of parts: 1

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
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