Letting Go (novel)
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Letting Go is the first full-length novel written by Philip Roth (1961) and is set in the 1950's. It was published when Roth was only 29.
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Gabe Wallach is a graduate student in literature at the University of Iowa who is an ardent admirer of Henry James. Fearing that the intellectual demands of a life in literature might leave him cloistered, Gabe seeks solace in what he thinks of as "the world of feeling". Following the death of his mother at the opening of the novel, Gabe befriends his fellow graduate student Paul Herz.
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