Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/10/2007
ISBN: 9780099485025
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
Weight: 224g
RRP: £10.99
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.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/10/2007
ISBN: 9780099485025
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
Weight: 224g
RRP: £10.99
Awfully good
Irresistibly articulate
He is utterly and intensely American, a voice, perhaps the voice, of the last decades of what was billed as "the American century"
Excellent...Roth's sensitivity to the balance of situations in his own fiction is Jamesian in its subtlety...consistently thoughtful and thoroughly engaging
An illuminating glimpse of the theory and practice that have made Roth a major figure in American fiction... Reveals a first-rate mind