{"product_id":"up-societys-ass-copper-mark-shechner-9780299193546","title":"Up Society's Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth","description":"\"\u003ci\u003eUp Society's Ass Copper: Rereading Philip Roth\u003c\/i\u003e is the culmination of thirty years of writing about Roth. A collection of essays and reviews, fulminations and daydreams, hasty claims and later retractions, it combines vivid first impressions with conclusions that have been percolating for decades. Its alloy of hunches, impressions, and judgments is the record of a restless and sometimes impatient reader trying to make sense of a turbulent and mercurial writer. I try to get at bedrock issues in Roth's writing without letting those issues distract me from the detours, anecdotes, impersonations, punch lines, send ups, pratfalls, visions, mutterings, and trash talk that are the purest distillations of Roth's art. Its working premise is that Roth \"does what he does because he does what he does\" and that the surest way to get a handle on him is not to be insistent and to allow each book to be unique, surprising, and strange.\"--Mark Shechner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Shechner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299193543\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299193546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/08\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2003 pg. 67","brand":"Mark Shechner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44540317532415,"sku":"9780299193546","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5bdbf874-5ab7-4603-b11e-723b89b656b5.jpg?v=1700587224","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/up-societys-ass-copper-mark-shechner-9780299193546","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}