I don't disagree with you, but look at the time frame in which all of your writers were at their peak.

Ozick is older (but still fresh, I find), but Goodman and Abraham are contemporaries of Foer and so I think are better writers to compare him to. I don't think you can look at the first novel of anyone and try to draw comparisons with the admitted geniuses of their field.

One caveat, though, on your list. I don't think Mailer has ever strived to be a "Jewish" writer in the same way that, for example, Philip Roth has.

On Roth, it's truly just a matter of taste. I respect him but never really connected with any of his work. I keep picking up The Human Stain after having it urged on me repeatedly by someone whose opinion I think very highly of. And I keep putting it down again.

I never even tried American Pastoral, but Sabbath's Theatre was, I thought, a problematic choice for the National Book Award. But oh well.

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