Summary
Philip Roth’s entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016
“Disturbing, logical and very funny… In short, a masterpiece” - New York Times Book Review
A ferocious political satire in the great tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, Our Gang is Philip Roth’s brilliantly acerbic response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.
In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth portrays an American president who out…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099389118 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099389118 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 1994 |
| Weight: | 149g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
The uncontested master of comic irony
The uncontested master of comic irony * Time *
Very funny - I laughed out loud sixteen times and giggle internally a statistically unverifiable amount. In short, a masterpiece… I cant think of anything like it * New York Times *
A bitter yet hilarious lampoon…a remarkable display of satiric vehemence. An extremely (in every sense) funny, nail-bitingly anxious work * Financial Times *
When Philip Roth sends Richard Nixon to hell in Our Gang, there is delight in recognising that if there is a hell, Nixon will probably act there just as Roth describes him * Washington Post *
Perhaps the funniest and most complex exercise in sustained political satire since Animal Farm * Newsweek *
Outrageously hilarious * Saturday Review of Books *
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighborhood his writing returned to time and again.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). His fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) won the Pulitzer Prize.
Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died at the age of eighty-five on May 22, 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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