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First Loves (Paperback)
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First Loves (Paperback)
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Solotaroff was one of the notable intellectuals of his generation,
the founder of the New American Review, editor and friend of Philip
Roth, and editor-in-chief at HarperCollins. Solotaroff reveals
himself here as a thinking man with a big heart and gaping wounds
of love that are not disconnected from the contributions he has
made to American culture throughout his career.
Solotaroff turns back to the earliest pages of his romance with
Lynn, remembering his first sighting of her emerging from the water
as if from a dream. Yet the image, as he penetrates the intervening
layers of sorrow and disappointment, is almost impossibly distant,
fragile. First Loves reenacts the blurring of a perfect conception
in the mind of a man who would devote his life to precision of
thought and word. This opposition, of romantic and intellectual
passion, drives the narrative and eventually brings it to
crisis.
First Loves could be described as a very private feat of honesty
from a public intellectual. Solotaroff's willingness to admit the
failures, personal and professional, alongside the triumphs of his
career gives a three-dimensional intensity to the emotions on the
page. Working with all of the gritty and romantic elements of his
storied life, Solotaroff manages to avoid a tone too heroic or
honey-dipped; he manages simply to tell the tale.
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