Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying
self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire, a
consolation for a bereft life so risky and aberrant that it points not
toward comfort and gratification but to a yet darker and more shocking
end. In this long day.s journey into night, told with Roth.s inimitable
urgency, bravura, and gravity, all the ways that we convince ourselves
of our solidity, all our life.s performances -- talent, love, sex, hope,
energy, reputation -- are stripped off. Following the dark meditations
on mortality and endings in Everyman and Exit Ghost, and the bitterly
ironic retrospect on youth and chance in Indignation, Roth has written
another in his haunting group of late novels.
The Humbling is Roth.s thirtieth book.

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