Letting Go seethes with life

A rich book, full of incident, wry and sad and even in its most desolating scenes somehow amusing

Letting Go is further proof of Mr. Roth's astonishing talent...amusing and touching and shocking by turns

A first novel of awesome maturity

One of the country's finest, most forcefully intelligent and serious contemporary writers

[Roth] has the finest eye for the details of American life since Sinclair Lewis

There's no doubting how good a writer Roth is

A rare pleasure to read

Indignation is, among its many pleasures, a controlled expression of wrath

If I had to choose one word to sum up Indignation I'd go for classy. If were allowed two: very classy

Consummately elegant

He writes perceptively about the shift from self-absorbed teenager to adult.

If all works of fiction were as thoughtful, as subtle, as well constructed and as funny as Metroland there would be no more talk of the death of the novel

It's one of the best accounts of clever English schoolboyhood I've read

Irony and imagery are deployed with a finesse even Flaubert wouldn't wince at...consummately elegant