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Seller: Brentwood Books, Kinnelon, NJ, U.S.A.Brentwood Books
AbeBooks seller since August 24, 1999
Condition: Used
US$ 75.00
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First printing. VG+ book in VG jacket. This is a blue and black book in black illustrated jacket, not price clipped (5.95). Book cover is like new, some small rather faint coffee spatter on upper page edges, name nearly written at bottom of front free endpaper. Jacket is a little edgeworn, just a little scuffing on spine. Former owner was a collector who has protected the jacket in a clear mylar sleeve. **We are a small family business selling online since 1999 with over 30 years' experience providing fine new and pre-owned books. We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA. **Your purchase supports our town's public library.
Seller Inventory # 65637
- Title
- Letting Go.
- Author
- Philip Roth .
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publication year
- 1962
- Condition
- Collectable, very good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 039443305X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394433059
- Edition
- 1st.
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 who, according to critic James Atlas, is masterfully portrayed with "depth and resonance."
The complex liason between Gabe and Martha and Gabe's moral enthusiasm for the trials of others are at the heart of this tragically comic work.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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About the Author
Prize in fiction for American Pastoral (1997). He won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist (1998); in the same year he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. Previously he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife (1986) and the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). In 2000 he published The Human Stain, concluding a trilogy that depicts the ideological ethos of postwar America. For The Human Stain Roth received his second PEN/Faulkner Award as well as Britain’s W. H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, given every six years “for the entire work of the recipient.” In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians Award for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003—2004.” In 2007 Roth received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Everyman.
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Brentwood Books
Kinnelon, NJ, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since August 24, 1999
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 4 to 14 business days | 3 to 6 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | US$ 4.98 | US$ 10.99 |
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Welcome to Brentwood Books! We are a two generation small family business (our young adult kids help too). We have over 30 years experience selling books and offer a wide selection of interesting new and pre-owned books at great prices. Your book will be packed with great care (NO thin plastic bags -we usually use cardboard boxes or cardboard wraps as well as inner plastic bags) and mailed to you very quickly. We always use Delivery Confirmation, so your package can be tracked. Please note, if you are paying by check, it must be made payable to "Wood's Books", our original name. Thank you for supporting our small business!…
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