Philip Roth: The Biography

Bailey, Blake

ISBN 10: 039324072X / ISBN 13: 9780393240726

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021

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Riassunto:

Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth’s personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the postwar literary scene.Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class Jewish milieu to achieve the heights of literary fame, how his career was nearly derailed by his catastrophic first marriage, and how he championed the work of dissident novelists behind the Iron Curtain.Leaving a Doll’s HouseTracing Roth’s path from realism to farce to metafiction to the tragic masterpieces of the American Trilogy, Bailey explores Roth’s engagement with nearly every aspect of postwar American culture.

Dalla quarta di copertina: Philip RothWashington PostTimes of LondonThe GuardianBookforumO, The Oprah MagazineThe SpectatorThe New CriterionHouston ChroniclePhilip Roth— Donald Weber, Jewish Book CouncilThe CriticWashington MonthlyUSA TodayPittsburgh Post-GazetteVirginian-PilotIrish IndependentEvening StandardNew York Daily NewsPublishers WeeklyKirkusBooklist— Jonathan Lethem

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Titolo: Philip Roth: The Biography
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione: 2021
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket