Anatomy Lesson (Signed Limited Edition) - Hardcover

Roth, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374104921 ISBN 13: 9780374104924

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1983

Synopsis

Philip Roth's novel, The Anatomy Lesson, is one of the great portraits of the writer in extremis. It is a wild, raucous, daring book that cements his reputation as one of this country's premier novelists.

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Review:

" The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book...lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions." -- John Updike, "The New Yorker"
" Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment.... [He] writes America's most raucously funny novels." -- "Time"
" One of Roth's most unsparing and revealing books...forceful and startling." -- "Newsday"

"The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book...lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions." John Updike, "The New Yorker"
"Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment.... [He] writes America's most raucously funny novels." "Time"
"One of Roth's most unsparing and revealing books...forceful and startling." "Newsday""

"The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book...lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions." --John Updike, The New Yorker

"Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment.... [He] writes America's most raucously funny novels." --Time

"One of Roth's most unsparing and revealing books...forceful and startling." --Newsday

About the Author:

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004." Recently Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0374104921
• ISBN 13: 9780374104924
• Binding: Hardcover