A multi-faceted tear jerker

If its subject embraces mortality, its sentences ring with vitality, and Roth reminds us why "the transforming exigencies of prose fiction" still matter even as the light begins to die

Taken together the Zuckermam novels read as both a noisy New Jersey Kaddish for 50 years of American History and an extraordinary contemporary "Song of Myself"

At his best, Philip Roth constructs his novels from huge blocks of material, to produce an effect that is overpowering

Here is a noble revelation of the curel vulnerability of the body we live in without choice

Consistently enthralling...full of tart humour and dancing intelligence

Nobody who has followed him - one of the great writers of our time - thus far, should miss it

A great book, a necessary book

There is something magnificent about Philip Roth's undimmed rage and life-lust... As a body of work, these novels may have changed the way that readers think about their own mortality and may also have enlarged their sense of what it means to be a man; and one hopes that even E.I. Lonoff might consider that a fair tribute to the power of art

This is a book about the importance of literature that lasts