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by SUHAILK » Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:46 pm
Like a post-colonial Philip Roth, his semi-autobiographical novels and screenplays revealed something harsher and raunchier about growing up in London in the 1970s and '80s.

I was reading an article on Economist today (https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero ... ve-writing)...and came across this sentence ...and i feel that here author compares Philip Roth and other author's novels but instead he should be comparing Philip Roth's novel...

Is this usage incorrect or I am missing something here.....
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by sameerballani » Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:25 am
Good point.
Even i feel that it should use some work of roth to compare with his novels.
Or after roth, he should immediately mention the author and then his work.

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SUHAILK wrote:Like a post-colonial Philip Roth, his semi-autobiographical novels and screenplays revealed something harsher and raunchier about growing up in London in the 1970s and '80s.

I was reading an article on Economist today (https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero ... ve-writing)...and came across this sentence ...and i feel that here author compares Philip Roth and other author's novels but instead he should be comparing Philip Roth's novel...

Is this usage incorrect or I am missing something here.....
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