The Dying Animal - Rilegato

Roth, Philip

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ISBN 10: 0618135871 ISBN 13: 9780618135875

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Riassunto

A prominent TV culture critic and lecturer, sixty-plus David Kepesh finds his world thrown into erotic turmoil by Consuela Castillo, a twenty-four-year-old beauty who ignites in him a sexual possessiveness, unreasoning jealousy, and obsessive passion. 60,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"...a distinguished addition to Roth's increasingly remarkable literary career." The San Francisco Chronicle

"(a) gleefully incendiary tale...whose eloquence and rage ultimately persuade us that (we)...bear the grace and the misfortune of belonging to a deeply flawed, tragically vulnerable, unavoidably mortal species." Elle

"This little book delivers a chill that you wouldn't get from a Zuckerman novel." Newsday

"In the hard, driving, unsentimental sentences, and with superb dialogue...Roth remained true to his youthful vision" Atlantic Monthly

"Powerful...Roth's narrator newly illuminates the American body, the American soul, the life of loving and the love of life that has always been so all-consuming in his fiction." The Chicago Tribune

"...insidiously disturbing and completely irresistable...All sympathetic readers will find themselves wondering: Is Philip Roth now our finest living novelist?" The Washington Post

"...the eponymous dying animal is not only a certain sort of man of a particular generation, but all of us..." Elle

"Small in size..large in insight and wisdom...Roth is spitting out brilliant novels every year. He's an American treasure." Orlando Sentinel

"...encompasses a broad expanse of human emotion and extends his stunning literary winning streak." St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"...a brilliant, demanding and splendidly artful exploration of fundamentals of literature and life" The Baltimore Sun

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, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. 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 prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award for “a body of work...of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship” and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose “scale of achievement over a sustained career...places him or her in the highest rank of American literature.”

Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. The last of eight volumes is scheduled for publication in 2013.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0618135871
• ISBN 13: 9780618135875
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 156