Gabe Wallach, a young academic in 1950s Chicago and New York, becomes entangled in the troubled marriage of his friends Paul and Libby Herz while avoiding commitments of his own.
Books mentioned in Letting Go (11)
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk: “Leonard, I'll lend you Marjorie Morningstar.”
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell: “She liked "To His Coy Mistress" and she loved "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode to Melancholy," too.”
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats: “She liked "To His Coy Mistress" and she loved "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode to Melancholy," too.”
Ode on Melancholy by John Keats: “She liked "To His Coy Mistress" and she loved "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode to Melancholy," too.”
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “She wrote on the pad: Already with thee! Tender is the night. She liked Tender Is the Night, which, of course, wasn't a poem.”
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner: “Of course I read The Sound and the Fury in college, and Light in August, but I've been planning to read all of Faulkner.”
Light in August by William Faulkner: “Of course I read The Sound and the Fury in college, and Light in August, but I've been planning to read all of Faulkner.”
The Princess Casamassima by Henry James: “I was working a little late one night—reading The Princess Casamassima in my office—and when I came out to the Midway, there was my car being pushed away.”
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James: “I was reading Portrait of a Lady, and it was into its pages that I slid the envelopes and its single sheet of barely legible prose.”
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: “"Neither of us know anything really outside the Edmund Wilson one—" she said, "the ghost story." "Turn of the Screw," I said.”
The Tempest by William Shakespeare: “"And what do you feel like instead?" "A—the girl in The Tempest. What's her name?" ... "Prospero's daughter—"”
Books that mention Letting Go (1)
The Facts by Philip Roth: “Random House was publishing Letting Go, my second book, later in the year”