{"product_id":"roth-unbound-claudia-roth-pierpont-9780374534936","title":"Roth Unbound","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA critical evaluation of Philip Roth--the first of its kind--that takes on the man, the myth, and the work\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhilip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our time. From his debut, \u003ci\u003eGoodbye, Columbus\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award in 1960, and the explosion of \u003ci\u003ePortnoy's Complaint \u003c\/i\u003ein 1969 to his haunting reimagining of Anne Frank's story in \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Writer \u003c\/i\u003eten years later and the series of masterworks starting in the mid-eighties--\u003ci\u003eThe Counterlife\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePatrimony\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOperation Shylock\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSabbath's Theater\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Human\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eStain\u003c\/i\u003e--Roth has produced some of the great American literature of the modern era. And yet there has been no major critical work about him until now.\u003cbr\u003e Here, at last, is the story of Roth's creative life. \u003ci\u003eRoth Unbound \u003c\/i\u003eis not a biography--though it contains a wealth of previously undisclosed biographical details and unpublished material--but something ultimately more rewarding: the exploration of a great writer through his art.\u003cbr\u003e Claudia Roth Pierpont, a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, has known Roth for nearly a decade. Her carefully researched and gracefully written account is filled with remarks from Roth himself, drawn from their ongoing conversations. Here are insights and anecdotes that will change the way many readers perceive this most controversial and galvanizing writer: a young and unhappily married Roth struggling to write; a wildly successful Roth, after the uproar over \u003ci\u003ePortnoy\u003c\/i\u003e, working to help writers from Eastern Europe and to get their books known in the West; Roth responding to the early, Jewish--and the later, feminist--attacks on his work. Here are Roth's family, his inspirations, his critics, the full range of his fiction, and his friendships with such figures as Saul Bellow and John Updike. Here is Roth at work and at play.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoth Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e is a major achievement--a highly readable story that helps us make sense of one of the most vital literary careers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claudia Roth Pierpont\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374534934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374534936\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/02\/2014 pg. 28","brand":"Claudia Roth Pierpont","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980909281535,"sku":"9780374534936","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c1914a3f-cf1f-463d-9d7b-c085cddc9642.jpg?v=1683252596","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/roth-unbound-claudia-roth-pierpont-9780374534936","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}