Издания и произведения

"Letting Go" is Philip Roth s first full-length novel, published when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa City, "Letting Go" presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from those of today. 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…