America Gone Awry
Philip Roth's strength as a novelist, Tom Grimes says,
is that he never writes as if he's finally reached a point
of permanent self-definition. He's always searching for
that definition, as a writer, as a Jew, and now, through
the aging, reclusive Nathan Zuckerman, as an
American.
"...Despite the good economy, people in America are terrified. Like a paranoiac's brain, which invents scenarios..."
