{"product_id":"in-historys-grip-michael-kimmage-9780804781824","title":"In History's Grip: Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn History's Grip\u003c\/i\u003e concentrates on the literature of Philip Roth, one of America's greatest writers, and in particular on \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Married a Communist\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Human Stain\u003c\/i\u003e. Each of these novels from the 1990s uses Newark, New Jersey, to explore American history and character. Each features a protagonist who grows up in and then leaves Newark, after which he is undone by a historically generated crisis. The city's twentieth-century decline from immigrant metropolis to postindustrial disaster completes the motif of history and its terrifying power over individual destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn History's Grip\u003c\/i\u003e is the first critical study to foreground the city of Newark as the source of Roth's inspiration, and to scrutinize a subject Roth was accused of avoiding as a younger writer--history. In so doing, the book brings together the two halves of Roth's decades-long career: the first featuring characters who live outside of history's grip; the second, characters entrapped in historical patterns beyond their ken and control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Kimmage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804781826\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804781824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2013","brand":"Michael Kimmage","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120260968703,"sku":"9780804781824","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_53bc191e-70c9-4a87-aa21-956aabe04dec.jpg?v=1687413361","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-historys-grip-michael-kimmage-9780804781824","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}