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A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work
$35.86
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2002
Summary
A brilliant collection of conversations and essays about writers and writing from Philip Roth, reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016.
Philip Roth is the voice of our times.
In a sequence of intimate conversations with some of the most influential and insightful writers of the twentieth century, Roth explores the importance of region, politics and history in their work and that of their predecessors. What qualities helped Primo Levi survive the demented labor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099428435 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099428431 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2002 |
| Weight: | 127g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Riveting * Sunday Times *
Roth brings out something adamantine and irreducible about each of his interlocutors… Rings with what his readers will recognise as Rothian intelligence * New York Times *
The questions are serious, respectful and intelligent, and the interviewees respond in kind * Times Literary Supplement *
Roth manages to tease from his subjects the convictions that fuel their work and the vulnerabilities that make them human… Yet another example of [his] clarity of purpose and singular intelligence * New York Times Book Review *
Fascinating glimpses of some of the deans of postwar literature [and] a working diagram of the very engine that makes Roth run * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighborhood that featured prominently in his writing throughout his career.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). His fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), cemented his reputation as a leading American author. American Pastoral (1997) earned him the Pulitzer Prize.
In total, Roth authored thirty-one books. He was honored with the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. Presidents Clinton and Obama presented him with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal, respectively.
Roth died on May 22, 2018, at the age of eighty-five, six years after retiring from writing.
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