American Pastoral

[celerest]

You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your

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when at last I am given my dues

[punkwithpanache]

Which roth novel?

Re: when at last I am given my dues

[celerest]

The one I took that from is 'American Pastoral' by Philip Roth.

'The Human Stain' and 'The Plot Against America' are my favourites by him tho. He is a literary God - no mistake!