The Great American Novel
$28.99
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
6 September 1991
Summary
Philip Roth’s entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016
The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable assortment of old men, drunks and even amputees. Around them baseball itself seems to be collapsing, brought down by a bizarre mixture of criminality, stupidity, and The Great Communist Conspiracy, aimed at the very heart of the American way of lif…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099889403 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099889404 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 6 September 1991 |
| Weight: | 289g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Shameless comic extravagance’
“Shameless comic extravagance’” New York Times “Roth invents baseball anew, as pure slapstick… An awesome performance” New Republic “Roth is one of a handful of living American novelists who can be called great” Washington Post “Roth is better than he’s ever been before… The prose is electric” Atlantic
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 book, 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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