![]() He struggles to navigate his Jewish identity in his new environs and to temper the tedium and twists of his first job with his aspirations for his new career. He is thrust into a world of “unassailable privilege,” as Prose describes it, a world with antisemitic undertones that seems designed to keep him at its periphery. ![]() Several months after the execution, Simon lands a job as a junior assistant editor at the prestigious literary agency Landry, Landry and Bartlett. REGISTER NOW: One Book, One Hadassah Presents: The Vixen Resentful of his Jewish-immigrant origins and middle-class upbringing and thrown from the predictability of academia into the uncertainty of post-college life, Simon has one eye on the immediate world around him-his mother’s illness, his father’s unreliability-and the other on his failed dreams of going to graduate school to study Old Norse literature. As Francine Prose’s new novel begins, Simon, a recent Harvard graduate, is staying with his family in their home in Brooklyn’s Coney Island. ![]() Simon Putnam and his parents are gathered around the television set, grimly watching news reports on the day that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are scheduled to be executed for spying for the Soviet Union. ![]() ![]() The Vixen: A Novel By Francine Prose (Harper) ![]()
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