Genre :: Jewish (7 books)

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  #119

  Herzog

  by Saul Bellow

  (3 Reviews)

  162 Points

  "If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."

  

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  #142

  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

  by Michael Chabon

  (6 Reviews)

  137 Points

  "In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back..."

  

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  #179

  Schindler's List

  by Thomas Keneally

  (5 Reviews)

  110 Points

  "In Poland's deepest autumn, a tall young man in an expensive overcoat, double-breasted dinner jacket beneath it and - in the lapel of the dinner jacket - a large ornamental gold-on-black enamel ..."

  

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  #294

  Daniel Deronda

  by George Eliot

  (2 Reviews)

  73 Points

  "Was she beautiful or not beautiful? and what was the secret of form or expression which gave the dynamic quality to her glance?"

  

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  #299

  Portnoy's Complaint

  by Philip Roth

  (4 Reviews)

  71 Points

  "She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seemed to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise."

  

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  #354

  Call it Sleep

  by Henry Roth

  (2 Reviews)

  60 Points

  

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  #389

  American Pastoral

  by Philip Roth

  (3 Reviews)

  52 Points

  "The swede."

  

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