Philip Roth
A Counterlife
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 May 2021
- ISBN 9780199846108
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages576 pages
- Size 168x239x53 mm
- Weight 962 g
- Language English 215
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Short description:
This new biography of the controversial, influential, and prize-winning American novelist Philip Roth, a writer with an international reputation for inventive, original novels from Portnoy's Complaint to American Pastoral and The Plot Against America, is based on new access to archival documents and new interviews with Roth's friends and associates.
MoreLong description:
This new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer.
Philip Roth was much more than a Jewish writer from Newark, as this new biography reveals. His life encompassed writing some of the most original novels in American literature, publishing censored writers from Eastern Europe, surviving less than satisfactory marriages, and developing friendships with a number of the most important writers of his time from Primo Levi and Milan Kundera to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow and Edna O'Brien. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and the Man Booker International Prize, Roth maintained a remarkable productivity throughout a career that spanned almost fifty years, creating 31 works. But beneath the success was illness, angst, and anxiety often masked from his readers. This biography, drawing on archives, interviews and his books, delves into the shaded world of Philip Roth to identify the ghosts, the character, and even identity of the man.
Nadel's research is so thorough that even Beth Roth's recipe for marble pound cake appears in full in the endnotes (chapter 8, note 101). There will be other biographies of Roth and his work, biographies that offer different understandings, but they will likely always find themselves competing with this volume, which for now at least is in the class of the heavyweights.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Newark, Newark
2. Declaration of Independence
3. An Education in Intensity
4. "Walked out on the Platinum!" or New York, New York
5. Death and Freedom
6 Portnoy: Let it Rip!
7. Jewish Wheaties
8. Traveling with Kafka
9. Supercarnal Productions
10. Zuckerman Live!
11. Psychoanalysis and Laxatives, or Democracy in America
12. Quintet or The Jersey Style
13. Coda: "It's a miserable life"
Index
