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The Sunday Read: ‘The Ghost Writer’

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Roth Acted as a Needy Manchild

He acted as a needy manchild. He often demanded that bloom spend time with him at the expense of her teen aged daughter anna. Rather than face his shortcomings, he clung to a mialpic perspective on the friction he helped cause. This version of ross a man of robust sexual appetite, earing sense of victimhood and unrelenting fury does seem reminiscent of his most insatiable characters. While roth was not writing autobiography, it seems true that he minded his own shortcomings for and processed his turbulent life through fiction.

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