Roth's new novel, autobio, Guardian interview

[pynchonoid]

[...]It was a long time, however, before Roth began to
write about the world he was brought up in. Neither of
his devoted, sensible parents seems to have had much
in common with the comic nightmares that tormented
Portnoy and they only began to figure large in their
son's work after they died. His new novel, The Plot
Against America, is, in a way, his memorial to them.
When Roth was working on it he told his friend David
Plante, the novelist, that he was "writing about his
parents in their prime, when their life was at its
full and they were dealing with it". Though the book
turned out to be about a lot of other things as well,
the portrait, according to Ascher, is strong and
accurate: "Herman was fiercely what he was - a
marvellous, naïve man who loved his children and was
perplexed by them. In this new book, Philip puts him
in these terrible situations and he reacts exactly as
he would have done in real life." [...]

read it all:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1300982,00.html


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