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...The 81-year-old Howard Jacobson is often referred to as “the English Philip Roth” for his sardonic humour, skirt-chasing protagonists and focus on Jewish identity....
...True literary heroes, for Amis, lay across the Atlantic: Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth. And he was out to shock....
...As Philip Roth observed, getting people wrong — again and again — is a common human pastime....
...In the other corner, and certainly winning at this juncture, is the austere concision of Sally Rooney, Rachel Cusk and their imitators....
...Normal People , by Sally Rooney, Faber, RRP£14.99 There was outrage and upset when Rooney didn’t make the cut for this year’s Man Booker shortlist....
...Perhaps someone or other in Saul Bellow or Philip Roth? Not Portnoy please. Who would you most like to sit next to at a dinner party?...
...After the relationship ran out of sexual steam, he moved in his young girlfriend, Sally, who became almost a daughter to Athill. It was, she says, a “lovely” time....
...Deception, the novel in which Philip Roth began introducing a whole gallery of Philip Roths into his fiction. 3....
...Anya Hindmarch Would it be really wrong of me to say I like the stonewashed denim jacket that Sally Hawkins wore in Happy Go Lucky? I fear I may have had one very similar once....
...Another depaysé movie is Spanish director Isabel Coixet’s Elegy, set in New York and based on Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal....
...Think Citigroup chief financial officer Sally Krawcheck and Morgan Stanley internet analyst Mary Meeker. What made the difference?...
...EVERYMAN by Philip Roth Jonathan Cape ₤10, 192 pages An unnamed protagonist rages against the dying of the light in this furious rant about the ravages of old age by one of the literary totems of the US...
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