{"product_id":"letting-go-isbn-9780679764175","title":"Letting Go","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first full-length novel from one of the most renowned writers of the twentieth century, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of\u003ci\u003e American Pastoral,\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a mid-century America and offers “further proof of Mr. Roth's astonishing talent…. \u003ci\u003eLetting Go\u003c\/i\u003e seethes with life” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished when Roth was twenty-nine and set in Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, \u003ci\u003eLetting Go\u003c\/i\u003e presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of America in the 1950s defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from those of today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.“\u003ci\u003eLetting Go\u003c\/i\u003e is further proof of Mr. Roth's astonishing talent…. Its emotional tension is nerve-racking, its psychological insight convincing. Mr. Roth has a phenomenal ear for colloquial dialogue. He is an effective storyteller…. \u003ci\u003eLetting Go\u003c\/i\u003e seethes with life.… The most talented novelist under 30 in America.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A first novel of awesome maturity.\" \u003cb\u003e—James Atlas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A rich book, full of incident,   wry and sad and even in its most desolating scene somehow amusing.\" \u003cb\u003e—Elizabeth Hardwick,   \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[Roth] has the finest eye for the details of American life since Sinclair   Lewis.\" \u003cb\u003e—Stanley Edgar Hyman\u003c\/b\u003ePHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302911201509,"sku":"NP9780679764175","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679764175.jpg?v=1767731380","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/letting-go-isbn-9780679764175","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}