I often think about how Philip Roth wrote an alternative history novel where his older brother was a Lindbergh supporter. I wouldn't like it if my brother did that to me.
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He was trying to be Henry James, but he couldn’t help being Philip Roth, and I think those circumstances created something great. James Atlas wrote an excellent defense of the book (tho a little too apologetic) in the New Republic in 1982.
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Odd thing about Portnoy is that, though it’s great, it brought his voice to a dead end. A decade of middling work followed. He didn’t really develop his mature voice until “Ghost Writer,” and it necessitated backing away from Portnoy and taking a few steps toward his early books.
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