- Published: 1 November 2010
- ISBN: 9781446401132
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 160
The Humbling
- Published: 1 November 2010
- ISBN: 9781446401132
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 160
Slim, fast-moving, sometimes funny but mostly bleak read...original and unsettling
The Times
Roth is no longer a novelist of comic exuberance, but of thoughtful meditation about life and increasingly death; he is our surviving laureate of lateness. His new work will not detain you long, but it will linger
Telegraph
His most savage and unrelenting work yet... (Roth) has lost neither his voice nor his power to shock
Sunday Herald
Roth's late prodigious burst of creativity continues
Metro
Roth...knows no limits, which is part of the fun of reading him
New Stateman
Adds to his reputation as one of American literature's greats
The Times
While the other big beasts of his literary generation lost it one by one, Roth has enjoyed a flowering of late form barely seen since Yeats.
Literary Review
There is a clarity, almost a ruthlessness, to his work, which makes the experience of reading any of his books a bracing, wild ride... He is the last of the giants
The Times
The great man of American literature still flashes with brilliance
Sunday Express
A literary colossus, whose ability to inspire, astonish and enrage his readers is undiminished'
Washington Post