Ho sposato un comunista
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788806173289 (8806173286)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Einaudi
Pages no: 306
Edition language: Italian
Series: The American Trilogy (#2)
This book gets two stars and I nearly always give five with my reviews. I picked up and read this book when my daughter accidentally left it behind on the kitchen table. Otherwise I would have read a cereal packet and might have been less irritated. The title alone is irritating. Philip Roth write...
Some people have claimed that Philip Roth is being less than chivalrous here about his ex-wife, which if true is not to his credit. But the book is worth it just for the scene where the daughter of the best-selling bodice-ripping author reads aloud a passage from her mother's latest bonkbuster, loos...
This book is a poignant story of lives touched by the Communist witch hunts of the 1950s, but is also about human passions and frailties, about how we delude ourselves in various ways, and about the ways in which people inspire and hurt each other. I have never understood why some people say all of ...
19 years ago
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