Description
Book SynopsisPhilip Roth''s writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest chroniclers of post-war American life. Collected here are some of the finest interviews, essays and articles discussing his own fiction and the range of controversies that it sparked, including his long interview with the
Paris Review. Here too are Roth''s writings on American fiction, Milan Kundera, baseball, and his deep admiration for Franz Kafka. Coursing through each of these pieces is the Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness that have defined Roth''s writing for half a century.
Trade ReviewAwfully good * New York Times *
Irresistibly articulate * Financial Times *
He is utterly and intensely American, a voice, perhaps the voice, of the last decades of what was billed as "the American century" * Wall Street Journal *
Excellent...Roth's sensitivity to the balance of situations in his own fiction is Jamesian in its subtlety...consistently thoughtful and thoroughly engaging * Washington Post *
An illuminating glimpse of the theory and practice that have made Roth a major figure in American fiction... Reveals a first-rate mind * Chicago Daily News *
