{"product_id":"philip-roth-9780199846108","title":"Philip Roth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new biography of the controversial, influential, and prize-winning American novelist Philip Roth, a writer with an international reputation for inventive, original novels from Portnoy's Complaint to American Pastoral and The Plot Against America, is based on new access to archival documents and new interviews with Roth's friends and associates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNadel's research is so thorough that even Beth Roth's recipe for marble pound cake appears in full in the endnotes (chapter 8, note 101). There will be other biographies of Roth and his work, biographies that offer different understandings, but they will likely always find themselves competing with this volume, which for now at least is in the class of the heavyweights. * J. A. Zoller, emeritus, Houghton College *\u003cbr\u003eThis deeply thought book is rich with information and insight and will be a huge benefit to the scholarly community mushrooming up around Roth's works as well as to the general reader interested in the riveting life of an important American writer. * Brett Ashley Kaplan, Cercle *\u003cbr\u003eSizeable, solidly researched, intelligently wrought. * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eIn its critical substance — scholarship and literary insight – it's really a better book, a more understanding book, than Bailey's. * Josh Gidding, Metapsychology.net *\u003cbr\u003eWell researched and clearly written... full of insights. * Jewish Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003eIra Nadel's Philip Roth: A Counterlife is an intense and illuminating study of the life, times, and work of the Jewish man from Newark who became one of America's most original and provocative writers. * Kristine Morris, Foreword Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eIn Philip Roth: A Counterlife, Ira Nadel exposes the multifaceted disposition of this major voice in American letters: Roth the realist, the ironist, the ventriloquist, the impersonator, the bard. In navigating the intricacies and dualities of the public and private Roth, Nadel shows the complexities, the contradictions, and the counterlives both lived and imagined. As literary sleuth, Nadel has enriched the myriad possibilities for understanding this exacting and defiant writer and his work. * Victoria Aarons, O.R. \u0026amp; Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature, Department of English, Trinity University *\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Nadel's study is always very readable and compelling but its discussion of material that has never been accessed before is particularly exciting. * David Brauner, Professor of Contemporary Literature, The University of Reading *\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Roth: A Counterlife engages and illuminates the scenes of discontent, betrayal, illness, and rage in Roth's own life that allow for new understandings of his work and relationships. Drawing on such primary source material as interviews, personal correspondence, and site visits, Nadel's biography penetrates the carefully composed narrative Roth presented publicly in order to present a \"counter\" Philip Roth, one who is at once more sympathetic to his readers than critics realize and more dynamic than even his self-creation allows. Nadel seamlessly weaves his interpretations of Roth's most provocative texts into the story of Roth's own life: a life shadowed by pain, illness, and personal injustices, but also illuminated by the joys of writing, ideas, and friendships that will persist long after his death. * Aimee Pozorski, Co-executive editor of Philip Roth Studies, Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1. Newark, Newark 2. Declaration of Independence 3. An Education in Intensity 4. \"Walked out on the Platinum!\" or New York, New York 5. Death and Freedom 6  Portnoy: Let it Rip! 7. Jewish Wheaties 8. Traveling with Kafka 9. Supercarnal Productions 10. Zuckerman Live!  11.  Psychoanalysis and Laxatives, or Democracy in America 12.  Quintet or The Jersey Style 13. Coda: \"It's a miserable life\" Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732890169687,"sku":"9780199846108","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/philip-roth-9780199846108","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}