The Humbling

"Roth is no longer a novelist of comic exuberance, but of thoughtful meditation about life and increasingly death; he is our surviving laureate of lateness. His new work will not detain you long, but it will linger" -- Stephen Abell Telegraph "There is a clarity, almost a ruthlessness, to his work, which makes the experience of reading any of his books a bracing, wild ride... He is the great postwar chronicler of America... He is the last of the giants" -- Erica Wagner The Times "The great man of American literature still flashes with brilliance" -- Lucy Tobin Sunday Express "Roth...knows no limits, which is part of the fun of reading him" -- Jason Cowley New Stateman "While the other big beasts of his literary generation lost it one by one, Roth has enjoyed a flowering of late form barely seen since Yeats. And these little masterpieces are coming out once a year, if not faster" Literary Review