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Philip Roth

Novels 1973-1977, The Great American Novel, My Life as a Man, The Professor of Desire (Library of Am…

By Philip Roth

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This third volume in The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works presents three markedly different novels that together trace a crucial period in the bold evolution of one of America's indispensable novelists. Surely the funniest novel ever written about baseball, Continue

This third volume in The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works presents three markedly different novels that together trace a crucial period in the bold evolution of one of America's indispensable novelists. Surely the funniest novel ever written about baseball, The Great American Novel (1973) turns our national pastime into unfettered picaresque farce. The cast of improbable characters includes: Gil Gamesh, the pitcher who actually tried to kill the umpire; John Baal, the ex-con first baseman, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober; and the House Un-American Activities Committee. My Life as a Man (1974), Roth's most blistering novel, presents the treacherous world of Strindberg nearly a century later in the story of a fierce marital tragedy of obsession and blindness and desperate need. The Professor of Desire (1977)-the novel that prompted Milan Kundera to proclaim Roth "a great historian of modern eroticism"-follows an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling into and out of the tempting wilderness of erotic possibility.

Critics

  • Goodbye, Columbus

    La trama e le recensioni di "Goodbye, Columbus", romanzo di Philip Roth edito da Einaudi. Con questo suo primo libro, premiato con il National Book Award, Philip Roth si è immediatamente affermato come scrittore dotato di un umorismo esplosivo, uno s ... (read full critics)

    Qlibri published on Fri, 27 Jan 2012

  • Nemesis

    Roth is on his usual patch – the jewish community in New Jersey. It is the summer of 1944 and Bucky Cantor is a young man who embodies the spirit of the All-American hero. He is a natural athlete, strong, determined, principled, just, a role model to ... (read full critics)

    bookgroup published on Mon, 12 Dec 2011

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  • My Life As A Man

    This collection of short stories was so disturbing to my life as a young woman that I engaged a totally personal war with Mr. Rot. (Thus mispelled -- on purpose). Then I got over it and he became Philip Roth again.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 906 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 1931082960
  • ISBN-13: 9781931082969
  • Publisher: Library of America
  • Pub date: Oct 19, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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