My Life as a Man
$25.16
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2005
Summary
Philip Roth’s entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016.
A fiction-within-a-fiction, My Life as a Man centres on the fraught marriage of Peter, a gifted young writer, and Maureen Tarnopol, the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead becomes his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and powered by moral blackmail. And yet, the couple’s relationship is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen’s death, Peter is still…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099515319 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099515318 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2005 |
| Weight: | 237g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
Balefully powerful
Balefully powerful – Martin Amis * New York Times *
A very grand work…in invention, in perception…in coming to grips with the wild inconsistencies of life and art * New Yorker *
Roth’s best… No writer alive can sustain a full-length novel at as high a decibel level as Philip Roth’ * Newsweek *
A scalding, unique addition to the lasting literature about men and women * Newsday *
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood 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 aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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