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Philip Roth - The Biography (Hardcover)
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Philip Roth - The Biography (Hardcover)
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'Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES
'Utterly engrossing' EVENING STANDARD 'Compulsively readable...
Beautifully written... Definitive' OBSERVER Appointed by Philip
Roth and granted complete access and independence, Blake Bailey
spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his
friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in
breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible
portrait of an American master and of the post-war literary scene.
Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class Jewish
milieu to achieve the heights of literary fame, how his career was
nearly derailed by his catastrophic first marriage, and how he
championed the work of dissident novelists behind the Iron Curtain.
Bailey examines Roth's rivalrous friendships with Saul Bellow, John
Updike and William Styron, and reveals the truths of his florid
love life, culminating in his almost-twenty-year relationship with
actress Claire Bloom, who pilloried Roth in her 1996 memoir,
Leaving a Doll's House. Tracing Roth's path from realism to farce
to metafiction to the tragic masterpieces of the American Trilogy,
Bailey explores Roth's engagement with nearly every aspect of
post-war American culture. *A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE OBSERVER,
GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD,
SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN*
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