Reading Myself and Others - Brossura

Roth, Philip

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ISBN 10: 0679749071 ISBN 13: 9780679749073

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2001

Riassunto

The acclaimed author comments, in selected interviews, articles, and essays, on the origins and developments of five of his books and on key preoccupations, preferences, experiences, and enthusiasms in his written and unwritten worlds. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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Recensione:

"An illuminating...glimpse of the theory and practice that have made Roth a major figure in American fiction.... Reveals a first-rate mind." —Chicago Daily News

"Roth [is] fearless in his own defense and in defense of literature." —Michael Mewshaw, Texas Monthly

"Excellent.... Roth's sensitivity to the balance of situations in his own fiction is Jamesian in its subtlety, and indeed in its nature this book is closer to James's prefaces than to any other book...consistently thoughtful and thoroughly engaging." —Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post

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 twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He 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.” 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. 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. He died in 2018.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679749071
• ISBN 13: 9780679749073
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320