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From: book reviews Category: Books Date: 08 May 2007 Time: 05:36 AM Review: Roth is such an easy writer. His sentences are like a warm bath after too much postmodern prose. His facility is great, his descriptions zing. But you feel this novel is going through the autobiographical notions, like in there there is a great novel about love and lust, but he couldn't face writing it, where is Tolstoy when you need him.