Letting Go.
ROTH, Philip.
Letting Go.
First Edition of Philip Roth's Letting Go; Signed by Him
New York: Random House, 1962.
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First edition of the author’s second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. An excellent near fine copy in a very good dust jacket that shows some rubbing.
Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, 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. "[Roth] has the finest eye for the details of American life since Sinclair Lewis" (Stanley Edgar Hyman).
