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I drive him around or I sit with him or I eat with him and I am thinking that the real work, the invisible, huge job that he did all his life, that his whole generation of Jews did, was making themselves American. Europe stopped with him
Philip Roth, Patrimony, A True Story
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American novelist and short story writer, born in New Jersey to a family of immigrants from Galicia. Widely revered as among the greatest novelists of the 20th century, winner of countless major writing awards. His writing is known for its boldness, sensuality and ingenuity, mixing reality and fiction in narratives that center on postwar America, sexuality, assimilation, Zionism, and anti-Semitism. Roth is known for his staunch opposition to political correctness and for his virtuosic sexual descriptions which raised plenty of froth. Among his best-known books (some of which were adapted into film): Goodbye, Columbus (1959), Sabbath’s Theater (1995) American Pastoral (1997), and The Human Stain (2000), The Plot Against America (2004).
