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'Wench' Author At Renbrook; Philip Roth Expert At Storrs

Hartford Courant - Jan 25, 2012
By CAROLE GOLDBERG, Special to The Courant The Hartford Courant A talk by the author of a novel that explores the moral complexities of slavery will be held Wednesday, Feb. 1, at Renbrook School, 2865 Albany Ave., West Hartford.

Top five book judging controversies

Telegraph.co.uk - Jan 25, 2012
Carmen Callil on Philip Roth. Photo: REX/AP By Sameer Rahim, Assistant Books Editor 1. In 1971 Malcolm Muggeridge, the media pundit, moralist and former deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph, withdrew his services as a judge for the Booker Prize in ...

Kumbaya Meets Catastrophe in Zuccotti Park

Religion Dispatches - Jan 26, 2012
Beginning perhaps with Philip Roth's odd short novel The Ghost Writer, in which the author's alter ego Nathan Zuckerman encounters a mysterious young woman who bears a striking resemblance to the most famous victim of the Holocaust, she has served ...

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Survival In Auschwitz

by: Primo Levi
In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and "Italian citizen of Jewish race," was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit.
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Goldsmith's Return

by: Terry Richard Bazes
Demons…. A murderous peeping Tom…. A three-hundred pound psychic beautician… A two-headed baby… And a visionary painter haunted by a strange beauty and a family curse dating back to Napoleonic France.

At once a mystery story, a love story, a kabbalistic conundrum, and a black comic farce in knockout prose—GOLDSMITH'S RETURN is a novel you’ll want to read twice!

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Goodbye, Columbus : And Five Short Stories

by: Philip Roth
Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.

Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer break and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. The novella is accompanied by five short stories that range in tone from the iconoclastic to the astonishingly tender and that illuminate the subterranean conflicts between parents and children and friends and neighbors in the American Jewish diaspora.
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Portnoy's Complaint

by: Philip Roth
Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.
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