Philip Roth (Hardcover)

Blake Bailey

ISBN 10: 0224098179 / ISBN 13: 9780224098175

Editore: Vintage Publishing, London, 2021

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Hardcover. The renowned biographer's definitive portrait of a literary titan'Superlative. definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly engrossing' EVENING STANDARD'Compulsively readable. Beautifully written. Definitive' OBSERVERAppointed by Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence, 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 post-war 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. Bailey examines Roth's rivalrous friendships with Saul Bellow, John Updike and William Styron, and reveals the truths of his florid love life, culminating in his almost-twenty-year relationship with actress Claire Bloom, who pilloried Roth in her 1996 memoir, Leaving a Doll's House. Tracing 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 post-war American culture.*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD, SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN* The renowned biographer's definitive portrait of a literary titanAppointed by Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Philip Roth (Hardcover)
• Editore: Vintage Publishing, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0224098179
• ISBN 13: 9780224098175
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

Superlativo. Definitivo e genuinamente avvincente' SUNDAY TIMES 'Completamente avvincente' EVENING STANDARD 'Compulsivamente leggibile. Splendidamente scritto. Definitivo' OBSERVER Nominato da Philip Roth e con accesso e indipendenza completi, Blake Bailey ha trascorso anni a studiare attentamente l'archivio personale di Roth, intervistando i suoi amici, amanti e colleghi e coinvolgendo Roth stesso in conversazioni incredibilmente sincere. Il risultato .È un ritratto indelebile di un maestro americano e della scena letteraria del dopoguerra. Bailey mostra come Roth sia emerso da un ambiente ebraico della classe medio bassa per raggiungere le vette della fama letteraria, come la sua carriera sia stata quasi deragliata dal suo primo matrimonio catastrofico e come abbia sostenuto il lavoro di romanzieri dissidenti dietro la cortina di ferro. Bailey esamina le amicizie rivali di Roth con Saul Bellow, John Updike e William Styron, e rivela le verità della sua florida vita amorosa, culminata nella sua relazione quasi ventennale con l'attrice Claire Bloom, che ha messo alla berlina Roth nella sua autobiografia del 1996, Leaving a Doll's House. Tracciando il percorso di Roth dal realismo alla farsa, alla meta fiction fino ai tragici capolavori della Trilogia americana, Bailey esplora l'impegno di Roth con quasi ogni aspetto della cultura americana del dopoguerra. UNA SCELTA DEI LIBRI DEL 2021 IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD, SPECTATOR E NEW STATESMAN .

Informazioni sull?autore

Blake Bailey is the author of biographies of John Cheever, Richard Yates, and Charles Jackson. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians, and a finalist for the Pulitzer and James Tait Black prizes. His previous book, The Splendid Things We Planned, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. He lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.