Lisa Halliday's controversial first novel mines her affair with Philip Roth
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In a opening stage of Lisa Halliday’s entrance novel, Asymmetry, Alice, a immature editorial partner during a edition house, is reading on a dais in Manhattan’s Upper West Side when a famous writer sits down beside her holding an ice-cream cone. When they accommodate again on a same dais dual weeks later, a novelist, Ezra Blazer, brings dual cones and offers her one. After she accepts it, fast rationalising that “multiple-Pulitzer Prize winners don’t go around poisoning people”, Ezra asks her, “Are we game?”
It’s not a terribly suave seduction, though soon, Alice and Ezra – who is 4 decades her comparison – thrust into a surreptitious romance.
Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry has caused a stir since of a doubtful intrigue during a core.
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Asymmetry has caused a stir since of a doubtful intrigue during a core. To literary insiders, Ezra Blazer bears a distinguished similarity to Philip Roth. Like Roth, Blazer is a soaring American literary idol who served in a US Army, published brief stories in The Paris Review and The New Yorker, won a National Book Award for his initial book, and went on to win probably each other poignant literary award. A using fun early on in a account is that Ezra, like Roth, is a consistent runner-up for a Nobel.
Ezra mirrors Roth in other, some-more personal ways: Hhe’s irresistibly funny, with a repertoire of Jewish humour, suffers from ongoing behind pain and heart disease, is a fixed non-believer and ball fan and leads a still existence on a Upper West Side.
Asymmetry, by Lisa Halliday.
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