In the Egosphere
Adam Mars-Jones: The Plot against Roth, 23 January 2014
Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
by Claudia Roth Pierpont.
Cape, 353 pp., £25, January 2014,978 0 224 09903 5 Show More
by Claudia Roth Pierpont.
Cape, 353 pp., £25, January 2014,
“... demands of art, though his wife, Hope, has paid at least as high a price. Lonoff is a version of Bernard Malamud, and there is another Jewish writer in the book, Felix Abravanel, who is a distillation of Bellow with a dash of Mailer. Pierpont rightly acclaims as ‘one of the most beautifully Jamesian phrases in this James-haunted book’ the ... ”