Philip Roth: Why Write? (LOA #300): Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014 (Library of America Philip Roth Edition)

Roth, Philip

ISBN 10: 1598535404 / ISBN 13: 9781598535402

Published by Library of America, 2017

About this Item

2017 hardcover stated 1st printing in green boards and with a green ribbon bookmark. A bit of inevitable sunning on edge of cover but essentially in fine condition .

Seller Inventory # ABE-1727386489916

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Philip Roth: Why Write? (LOA #300): Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014 (Library of America Philip Roth Edition)
• Publisher: Library of America
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598535404
• ISBN 13: 9781598535402
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Tracing the full span of Philip Roth's career - from the early controversies surrounding the stories in Goodbye, Columbus to his recent assessments of his work and corrections of the record - this retrospective summation of his essays and interviews shows at every turn the vigour, acuity, and persuasive power of our most celebrated living novelist.

About the Author

In 1997, Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral and in 2002 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. His collected works have been published in a definitive ten-volume edition by the Library of America.