{"product_id":"book-gokt","title":"Letting Go","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first full-length novel from one of the most renowned writers of the twentieth century, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/em\u003e, tells the story of a mid-century America and offers \"further proof of Mr. Roth's astonishing talent…\u003cem\u003eLetting Go\u003c\/em\u003e seethes with life\" (\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished when Roth was twenty-nine and set in Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, \u003cem\u003eLetting Go\u003c\/em\u003e presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of America in the 1950s defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from those of today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNewly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, freed from old attachments and hungrily seeking others, Gabe Wallach is drawn to Paul Herz, a fellow graduate student in literature, and to Libby, Paul's moody, intense wife. Gabe's desire to be connected to the ordered \"world of feeling\" that he finds in books is first tested vicariously by the anarchy of the Herzes' struggles with responsible adulthood and then by his own eager love affairs. Driven by the desire to live seriously and act generously, Gabe meets an impassable test in the person of Martha Reganhart, a spirited, outspoken, divorced mother of two, a formidable woman who, according to critic James Atlas, is masterfully portrayed with \"depth and resonance.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe complex liaison between Gabe and Martha and Gabe's moral enthusiasm for the trials of others are at the heart of this tragically comic work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49282169405744,"sku":"BDgokt","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49282169438512,"sku":"ZEgokt","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49282169471280,"sku":"ZMgokt","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/gokt-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775983569","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gokt","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}