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In this, the second volume of The Library of America’s definitive edition of the collected works of Philip Roth, published by special arrangement with the author, the range and inventiveness of Roth’s fiction is dazzlingly displayed in four extraordinarily diverse works.

When She Was Good (1967) is the trenchant portrait of Lucy Nelson, a young midwestern woman whose perception of her own suffering turns her into a ferocious force, “enemy-ridden and unforgivingly defiant,” as Roth would later describe her. A small-town 1940s America of restrictive social pressures and foreclosed opportunities provides the novel’s background.

The publication of the hilarious Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) was a cultural event that turned Roth into a reluctant celebrity. The confession of a bewildered psychoanalytic patient thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality yet held back by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood, Portnoy unleashed Roth’s comic virtuosity and opened new avenues for American fiction.

In Our Gang (1971), described by Anthony Burgess as a “brilliant satire in the real Swift tradition,” Roth effects a savage takedown of the administration of Richard Nixon (who figures here as Trick E. Dixon). Written before the revelations of the Watergate scandal, Our Gang continues to resonate as a broad and outraged response to the clownish hypocrisy and moral theatrics of the American political scene.

The Kafkaesque excursion The Breast (1972) introduces David Kepesh in the first volume of a trilogy that continues with The Professor of Desire (1977) and The Dying Animal (2001). The Breast prompted Cynthia Ozick to remark, “One knows when one is reading something that will permanently enter the culture.”

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Philip Roth

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America s most celebrated writer returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature his controversial novels and the writing life including including six pieces published here for the first time and many others newly revised throughout a unparalleled literary career that Uiterlijk 7 februari in huis .. MEER INFO

Philip Roth

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Gathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of the library of america s definitive edition of philip roth s collected works is the acclaimed american trilogy a major milestone in contemporary american literature in american pastoral 1997 swede levov is wrenched from the tranquil Uiterlijk 14 februari in huis .. MEER INFO

Philip Roth

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The library of america s definitive edition of philip roth s collected works continues with two novels that heralded the beginning of a more than decade long creative explosion one remarkable in an older writer and hailed by critics as unparalleled in american literary history in the diabolically i Uiterlijk 7 februari in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 18 augustus 2005

Aantal pagina's: 672

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Philip Roth

Hoofdredacteur: Ross Miller

Tweede Redacteur: Ross Miller

Hoofduitgeverij: The Library Of America

Originele titel: Philip Roth: Novels and Stories 1959-1962

Editie: 1

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Product breedte: 131 mm

Product hoogte: 32 mm

Product lengte: 208 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 123 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 32 mm

Verpakking lengte: 207 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 584 g

eWaste: Nee

EAN: 9781931082808

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