1. The last 25 years of Philip Roth's are depressing to contemplate. After a bitter divorce, Roth became unmoored: touchy, self-justifying, quick to break with old friends, prone to doomed relationships, eager to find a biographical vindication. His estate continues the folly.
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There was comedy in "American Pastoral" but it was so bleak. (Thinking of the grandfather and the fork at the end, and the vicious, bitter takedowns of Swede Levov by his incredibly angry brother.) Comedy in "The Human Stain" was unintentional.
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