My Life As a Man - Rilegato

Roth, Philip

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ISBN 10: 0140076808 ISBN 13: 9780140076806

Casa editrice: Penguin, 1985

Riassunto

A young novelist's obsession with proving his manhood is transferred to his fiction and echoed in his tempestuous marriage

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Recensione

"Roth's best.... No writer alive can sustain a full-length novel at as high a decibel level as Philip Roth." —Newsweek

"[My Life as a Man is] a scalding, unique addition to the lasting literature about men and women." —Newsday

"A very grand work...in invention, in perception...in coming to grips with the wild inconsistencies of life and art." —New York

L'autore

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.

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• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0140076808
• ISBN 13: 9780140076806
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352