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Letting go
Gabe Wallach, recently discharged from the Korean War army, finds himself reeling from his mother's death and freed from old attachments. His desire to be connected to the orderly "world of feeling" that he finds in books is first tested by the struggles with responsible adulthood a fellow literature graduate student and his wife have and by his love affairs.
- "Gabe Wallach, recently discharged from the Korean War army, finds himself reeling from his mother's death and freed from old attachments. His desire to be connected to the orderly "world of feeling" that he finds in books is first tested by the struggles with responsible adulthood a fellow literature graduate student and his wife have and by his love affairs."@en
- "Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul's moody, intense wife. Gabe's desire to be connected to the ordered "world of feeling" that he finds in books is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes' struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager love affairs. Driven by the desire to live seriously and act generously, Gabe meets an impassable test in the person of Martha Reganhart, a spirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, a formidable woman. The complex liaison between Gabe and Martha and Gabe's moral enthusiasm for the trials of others are at the heart of this ambitious first novel."@en
- "An affluent young man struggles to maintain a healthy balance between his sympathy for less fortunate friends and his instinct for self-protection."@en
- "Letting Go is Philip Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa City, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from those of today ..."@en
- "Newly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul's moody, intense wife. The anarchy caused by the Herzes' struggle with responsible adulthood and his own eager love affairs vicariously tests Gabe's desire to be connected to the ordered 'world of feeling' that he finds in books."@en
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