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'Roth is no longer a novelist of comic exuberance, but of thoughtful meditation about life and increasingly death; he is our surviving laureate of lateness' Daily Telegraph
Everything is over for Simon Axler. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. When he goes on stage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. In this long day's journey into night, told with Roth's inimitable urgency, bravura and gravity, all our life's performances-talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation - are stripped bare.
There is a clarity, almost a ruthlessness, to his work, which makes the experience of reading any of his books a bracing, wild ride He is the last of the giants' Erica Wagner, The Times
The great man of American literature still flashes with brilliance' Daily Express
'Roth knows no limits,...
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Fülszöveg
'Roth is no longer a novelist of comic exuberance, but of thoughtful meditation about life and increasingly death; he is our surviving laureate of lateness' Daily Telegraph
Everything is over for Simon Axler. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. When he goes on stage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. In this long day's journey into night, told with Roth's inimitable urgency, bravura and gravity, all our life's performances-talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation - are stripped bare.
There is a clarity, almost a ruthlessness, to his work, which makes the experience of reading any of his books a bracing, wild ride He is the last of the giants' Erica Wagner, The Times
The great man of American literature still flashes with brilliance' Daily Express
'Roth knows no limits, which is part of the fun of reading him' New Stateman
'While the other big beasts of his literary generation lost it one by one. Roth has enjoyed a flowering of late form barely seen since Yeats' Literary Review
'His most savage and unrelenting work yet Roth has lost neither his voice nor his power to shock' Sunday Herald
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