Philip Roth: A Counterlife (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199846108)

This new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer.

Philip Roth was much more than a Jewish writer from Newark, as this new biography reveals. His life encompassed writing some of the most original novels in American literature, publishing censored writers from Eastern Europe, surviving less than satisfactory marriages, and developing friendships with a number of the most important writers of his time from Primo Levi and Milan Kundera to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow and Edna O'Brien. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and the Man Booker International Prize, Roth maintained a remarkable productivity throughout a career that spanned almost fifty years, creating 31 works. But beneath the success was illness, angst, and anxiety often masked from his readers. This biography, drawing on archives, interviews and his books, delves into the shaded world of Philip Roth to identify the ghosts, the character, and even identity of the man.

Author: IRA Nadel
ISBN-10: 0199846103
ISBN-13: 9780199846108
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2021
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.12lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.60w x 2.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/25/2021
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2021
Foreword 02/26/2021
Choice 01/01/2022