Description: Yesterday's Muse, Inc. presents ... Philip Roth: The Biography ISBN:039324072X Author:Bailey, Blake Publisher:W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Release Date:2021 Seller Category:-- Qty Available:1 Condition:Collectible: Excellent Sku: 2343791 Notes: First edition. Jacket spine head and spine base lightly bumped. 2021 Hard Cover. xii, 898 pp. Includes 100 photographs. 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. 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 postwar American culture. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our eBay Store!!
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Location: Webster, New York
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Book Title: Philip Roth : the Biography
Number of Pages: 912 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 1.9 in
Topic: Literary, American / General, Jewish
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 46 Oz
Author: Blake Bailey
Item Length: 9.6 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
