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Winner of the National Book Award
Roth's award-winning first book--about Neil Klugman, Brenda Patimkin, and their relationship which tests the boundaries of suspicion, social class, and love--instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of characters.
Roth's award-winning first book--about Neil Klugman, Brenda Patimkin, and their relationship which tests the boundaries of suspicion, social class, and love--instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of characters.
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"A masterpiece." --Newsweek "Unlike those of us who come howling into the world, blind and bare, Mr. Roth appears with nails, hair, teeth, speaking coherently. He is skilled, witty, energetic and performs like a virtuoso." --Saul Bellow "Superior, startling, incandescently alive." --The New Yorker
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Philip Roth's first book, which won the National Book Award for Fiction, now reissued in electric new backlist style
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0679748261
- ISBN 13 9780679748267
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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