SOURCE: "Paradise Lost," in New York Review of Books, Vol. XLIV, No. 10, June 12, 1997, pp. 12-14.
[In the following review Hardwick briefly compares American Pastoral to several other works by Roth: Operation Shylock. The Anatomy Lesson, Portnoy's Complaint, and The Professor of Desire. She examinines the evolution of the character Nathan Zuckerman through the course of these novels.]
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