A Philip Roth Reader [Import] [Paperback]

PHILIP ROTH (Author)

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Paperback: 514 pages
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD; First Edition edition (1984)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140055185
ISBN-13: 978-0140055184
Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces

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In the 1990s Philip Roth won America's four major literary awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony (1991), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock (1993), the National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater (1995), and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for American Pastoral (1997). He won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist (1998); in the same year he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. Previously he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife (1986) and the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). In 2000 he published The Human Stain, concluding a trilogy that depicts the ideological ethos of postwar America. For The Human Stain Roth received his second PEN/Faulkner Award as well as Britain's W. H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, given every six years "for the entire work of the recipient." In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians Award for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003--2004." In 2007 Roth received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Everyman.

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This review is from: A Philip Roth Reader (Hardcover)

The only problem with this 'reader' is that it excerpts works up until 1981. In the past twenty- five years Roth has written many new works central to his oeuvre such as 'American Pastoral' and 'The Plot Against America'. Therefore the Reader needs a serious updating if it is to be truly representative of this wonderfully prolific and talented writer's work.

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