![]() ![]() Though I knew that we were tolerated and accepted as well - in publicized individual cases, even specially esteemed - and though I never doubted that this country was mine, I was not unaware of the power to intimidate that emanated from the highest and lowest reaches of gentile America.” … At home the biggest threat came from the Americans who opposed or resisted us - or condescended to us or rigorously excluded us - because we were Jews. ![]() “The greatest menace while I was growing up came from abroad, from the Germans and the Japanese, our enemies because we were American. In an ardent and moving essay, “My Life as a Boy,” Roth wrote about his Newark childhood. Reading Roth’s experimental novel, “The Counterlife,” is like “being trapped between two fun house mirrors that reflect each other’s distortions unto a point that vanishes into absurdity,” Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote. ![]()
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