A Philip Roth Reader [Paperback]

Philip Roth (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1980

Selections from eight of Philip Roth's early novels.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1933 and educated at Bucknell University and the University of Chicago. His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, won the US National Book Award 1960 and was made into a highly successful film. His other books include the international bestseller Portnoy's Complaint, The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson, The Prague Orgy, The Counterlife (winner of the 1987 National Book Critics' Circle Award), Deception and Patrimony. His latest book, Operation Shylock, is published by Jonathan Cape. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 483 pages
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (October 1, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0374516049
• ISBN-13: 978-0374516048
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,721,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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.