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Philip Roth: Why Write? (LOA #300) : Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014 by Philip Roth (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-101598535404
ISBN-139781598535402
eBay Product ID (ePID)237434292
Product Key Features
Book TitlePhilip Roth: Why Write? (Loa #300) : Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014
Number of Pages476 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Essays, Books & Reading
Publication Year2017
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
AuthorPhilip Roth
Book SeriesLibrary of America Philip Roth Edition Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight19.1 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-963465
Reviews"Our hero continues his great and devouring argument with life, exhibiting a tremendous generosity of spirit towards other voyagers in literature and a magnificent defiance of the prohibition that an artist shouldn't intellectualize and defend his own work it in the public arena. At a time when we seem to be questioning every verity, Why Write? is required reading." -- Jonathan Lethem
Series Volume Number10
SynopsisTracing the full span of Philip Roth's career - from the early controversies surrounding the stories in Goodbye, Columbus to his recent assessments of his work and corrections of the record - this retrospective summation of his essays and interviews shows at every turn the vigour, acuity, and persuasive power of our most celebrated living novelist., Philip Roth returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature, his controversial novels, and the writing life., 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 includes two National Book Awards ( Goodbye, Columbus , 1959 and Sabbath's Theater , 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction ( American Pastoral , 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award ( The Counterlife , 1986), and the National Humanities Medal (awarded by President Obama in 2011), among many other honors, Philip Roth has produced an extraordinary body of nonfiction writing on a wide range of topics: his own work and that of the writers he admires, the creative process, and the state of American culture. This work is collected for the first time in Why Write? , the tenth and final volume in the Library of America's definitive Philip Roth edition. Here is Roth's selection of the indispensable core of Reading Myself and Others , the entirety of the 2001 book Shop Talk , and "Explanations," a collection of fourteen later pieces brought together here for the first time, six never before published. Among the essays gathered are "My Uchronia," an account of the genesis of The Plot Against America , a novel grounded in the insight that "all the assurances are provisional, even here in a two-hundred-year-old democracy"; "Errata," the unabridged version of the "Open Letter to Wikipedia" published on The New Yorker 's website in 2012 to counter the online encyclopedia's egregious errors about his life and work; and "The Ruthless Intimacy of Fiction," a speech delivered on the occasion of his eightieth birthday that celebrates the "refractory way of living" of Sabbath's Theater 's Mickey Sabbath. Also included are two lengthy interviews given after Roth's retirement, which take stock of a lifetime of work. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
LC Classification NumberPS3568.O855
