Blogs in September 2020

Indignation 2nd September 2020

During the second year of the Korean War in 1951, studious, law-abiding Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College. Marcus has fled from his hometown of Newark, New jersey, trying to...

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Goodbye, Columbus 12th February 2020

Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer and fall into an affair that is as much about social class and...

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Nemesis 1st January 1970

Weequahic, the Jewish suburb of Newark, New Jersey, and a character whose simple belief in human progress and humanist perfection is tested by the strains of a polio epidemic. Set against World War 2 the novel explores loss of...

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American Pastoral 1st January 1970

In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century’s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth’s protagonist is Seymour ‘Swede’ Levov – a legendary high...

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