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"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"
- Philip G. Hamerton,
'The Intellectual Life'
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 640 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 0679764178
Release Date: Jan 10, 1998
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Letting Go is Philip Roth's first full-length novel, published when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa City, Letting Go presents a fictional portrait of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from those of today. 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. The complex liaison between Gabe and Martha and Gabe's moral enthusiasm for the trials of others are at the heart of this tragically comic work.
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AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!
-- Tiffany, a 14 year old jap from long island., November 28, 2000
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