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Philip Roth

Philip Roth A Counterlife

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Publisher's Synopsis

This new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer. Philip Roth was much more than a Jewish writer from Newark, as this new biography reveals. His life encompassed writing some of the most original novels in American literature, publishing censored writers from Eastern Europe, surviving less than satisfactory marriages, and developing friendships with a number of the most important writers of his time from Primo Levi and Milan Kundera to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow and Edna O'Brien. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and the Man Booker International Prize, Roth maintained a remarkable productivity throughout a career that spanned almost fifty years, creating 31 works. But beneath the success was illness, angst, and anxiety often masked from his readers. This biography, drawing on archives, interviews and his books, delves into the shaded world of Philip Roth to identify the ghosts, the character, and even identity of the man.

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Oxford University Press

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Book information

ISBN: 9780199846108
Publisher: OUP USA
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 576
Weight: 988g
Height: 167mm
Width: 246mm
Spine width: 44mm