Summary
A collection of Philip Roth’s essays, journalism, and interviews, reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016.
Philip Roth’s writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest chroniclers of post-war American life. Collected here are some of the finest interviews, essays, and articles discussing his own fiction and the range of controversies that it sparked, including his long interview with the Paris Review
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099485025 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099485028 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2007 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Awfully good
Awfully good * New York Times *
Irresistibly articulate * Financial Times *
He is utterly and intensely American, a voice, perhaps the voice, of the last decades of what was billed as “the American century” * Wall Street Journal *
Excellent…Roth’s sensitivity to the balance of situations in his own fiction is Jamesian in its subtlety…consistently thoughtful and thoroughly engaging * Washington Post *
An illuminating glimpse of the theory and practice that have made Roth a major figure in American fiction… Reveals a first-rate mind * Chicago Daily News *
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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