The Prague Orgy
$22.46
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
1 December 1995
Summary
Philip Roth’s entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016.
In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament marked by an institutionalised oppression that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the subjugated writer…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099476511 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099476517 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 1995 |
| Weight: | 77g |
| Dimensions: | 6mm x 129mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
Scabrous, gutsy and scathing
Scabrous, gutsy and scathing * The Times *
Obscenely outrageous and yet brilliantly reflective of a paranoid reality that has become universal. It is the best of Roth, a kind of coda to all his fiction so far – Harold Bloom * New York Times Book Review *
This fitting capstone to Roth’s Zuckerman trilogy proves that no one now writing can be funnier and more passionately serious than Philip Roth * The Times *
A black fable about the lies and fictions which are the life blood of both politics and literature * Sunday Times *
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), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which 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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