From Bondage

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Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 3 - A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature'

Written in the last year of Roth's life, this is the impassioned story of a young man's love affair with literature, and with his teacher. As Ira Stigman turns from his childhood incestuous affairs, he finds himself competing with hisbest friend for the attention of their literature professor. From Bondage is theis the moving culmination of a great writer's life.