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Remember the scene in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint where the newly teen-aged Alex Portnoy goes to a frozen pond in his hometown of Newark to gaze upon gentile girls ice-skating?
In fact, a Portnoy of the present, a kid with his nose pressed up against the window (to borrow the self-description of another ghetto-bred Jewish writer, Theodore H. White) would surely regard these stick-wielding, puck-handling lads as representing full, totally secure membership in the comfortable classes of American society.
It is about "the same irony and the same agony" as Portnoy's Complaint --the excesses of the 1960s--but American Pastoral is "darker, difficult, more mature."
In the Portnoy household nobody played sports--bodies existed only to generate suffering--and there was only one thing that really went well.
For Alex Portnoy, athleticism was something alien.