Summary
Philip Roth’s entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016
Simon Axler is one of America’s leading classical stage actors, but his talent - his magic - has deserted him. All the spontaneity and unthinking impulsiveness that made him great has been replaced by a paralysing self-consciousness. Overwhelmed, Axler’s wife promptly leaves him, and Axler checks into a psychiatric hospital. It is only when he begins an affair with Pegeen - formerl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099535652 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099535653 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2010 |
| Weight: | 128g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A literary colossus, whose ability to inspire, astonish and enrage his readers is undiminished’
A literary colossus, whose ability to inspire, astonish and enrage his readers is undiminished’ * Washington Post *
There is a clarity, almost a ruthlessness, to his work, which makes the experience of reading any of his books a bracing, wild ride… He is the last of the giants * The Times *
Roth…knows no limits, which is part of the fun of reading him * New Stateman *
While the other big beasts of his literary generation lost it one by one, Roth has enjoyed a flowering of late form barely seen since Yeats. * Literary Review *
Roth is no longer a novelist of comic exuberance, but of thoughtful meditation about life and increasingly death; he is our surviving laureate of lateness. His new work will not detain you long, but it will linger * Telegraph *
The great man of American literature still flashes with brilliance * Sunday Express *
His most savage and unrelenting work yet… (Roth) has lost neither his voice nor his power to shock * Sunday Herald *
Roth’s late prodigious burst of creativity continues * Metro *
Slim, fast-moving, sometimes funny but mostly bleak read…original and unsettling * The Times *
Adds to his reputation as one of American literature’s greats * The Times *
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. 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). His fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) 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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