Conversations With Philip Roth (Paperback)

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This collection of interviews reveals the intellectual and creative life of one of America's contemporary masters of fiction writing. In spanning his richly productive career, they convey a sense of his continuity and of his growth as a novelist.

Roth has said that one of his goals is to reconcile "experience that I am strongly attached to be temperament and training--the aggressive, the crude, and the obscene, at one extreme, and something a good deal more subtle and, in every sense, refined, at the other."

These conversations reveal a savvy, thoughtful man who shows great intelligence, confidence, and wit, as well as an admirable sense of humility and tact.

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi (May 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878055584
• ISBN-13: 978-0878055586
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,360,884 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Philip Roth is one of New Jersey's finest living writers and authors. He was on the shortlist for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 but lost to Harold Pinter. Roth's love of Newark is obvious in his literature. I love reading and rereading the articles. This book is a compilation of articles and conversations about the prolific author. The book is outdated because he and the divine actress Claire Bloom have long separated and divorced since 1995. I think the book needs to be updated. Newark, New Jersey is hometown offered a tour of his book locations in October 2005. I am using this book to help students in Newark, New Jersey understand that Roth is one of the most world renowned authors of our time and to be a local boy who does good. The Newark of Phil's youth is long gone, many of the communities that were enclaves to specific ethnic groups have long migrated into the better neighborhoods but I think there is the sense of community missing in their lives or they wouldn't miss and relish the sense of community that once existed in the old neighborhoods of Newark as well.