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Reading Myself And Others
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781407018669
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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Reading Myself And Others

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3 Dec 2007
EBook
1 Aug 2011
Paperback
15 June 2001
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A collection of Philip Roth's essays, journalism and interviews, reissued in electric new backlist style for October 2016

Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest chroniclers of post-war American life. Collected here are some of the finest interviews, essays and articles discussing his own fiction and the range of controversies that it sparked, including his long interview with the Paris Review. Here too are Roth's writings on American fiction, Milan Kundera, baseball, and his deep admiration for Franz Kafka. Coursing through each of these pieces is the Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness that have defined Roth's writing for half a century.
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781407018669
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
Categories:

About the author

Philip Roth

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again. Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize. Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively. Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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Praise for Reading Myself And Others

Excellent...Roth's sensitivity to the balance of situations in his own fiction is Jamesian in its subtlety...consistently thoughtful and thoroughly engaging

Washington Post

An illuminating glimpse of the theory and practice that have made Roth a major figure in American fiction... Reveals a first-rate mind

Chicago Daily News

Irresistibly articulate

Financial Times

Awfully good

New York Times

He is utterly and intensely American, a voice, perhaps the voice, of the last decades of what was billed as "the American century"

Wall Street Journal