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BOOKS: Philip Roth proves his literary prowess once again...
EVEN WITH HIS 26TH BOOK about to appear in bookstores, Philip Roth is still revising. Now 71, Roth has won just about every major American award a novelist can win, but a casual suggestion--that he has been insufficiently cruel to one of his characters--gets him pondering. "I didn't think of something like that happening to him," he says, musing aloud. "I guess--you know, it's interesting that you bring that up. It's too late for me to make any changes--the finished book just arrived today--but I wonder what I could have done...
That little speech should tell you three things about Roth. First, he never stops working. He's coming off a millennial hot streak that includes three astonishing books--Sabbath's Theater, American Pastoral and The Human Stain. For another writer, those would have constituted a distinguished career all by themselves. Second, he is constantly surprising--never forget (and perhaps he sometimes wishes we would) that this is the guy who wrote a novella about a man who literally turned into a gigantic breast. Third, Roth sees the world as a tangle of hypotheticals and what-ifs, of counterlives and forking...
...Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin; 391 pages) began in early spring 2001 with a single sentence, not one of Roth's own but a chance comment by the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who speculates in his autobiography that in 1940 some right-wing members of the Republican Party considered drafting the pioneering pilot Charles Lindbergh as a presidential candidate. "That's it," Roth chuckles over the phone, surprisingly relaxed and wry for a man who jealously guards his privacy. "That's all it took. It should always be that easy...
Senior Jamie Roth saw his first action in goal this year after junior Ryan Johnson sat out because of a groin injury he suffered before playing the Hawks on Friday. Johnson suffered shoulder and calf injuries last season which limited his ability to start in goal and Kerr said he was not sure who he would start in net Wednesday against...