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100 1 $aPierpont, Claudia Roth,$eauthor.
245 10 $aRoth unbound :$ba writer and his books /$cClaudia Roth Pierpont.
250 $aFirst paperback edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2014.
300 $a353 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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500 $aOriginally published in hardcover in 2013.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-334) and index.
505 0 $aDefenders of the faith -- Real Americans -- Not letting go -- A Jewish patient begins his analysis -- A Jewish joke -- Drilling for inspiration -- Kafka's children -- And then he sends me Claire -- The madness of art -- Eating only words -- Cain to your Abel, Esau to your Jacob -- You mustn't forget anything -- A holiday about snow -- Nobody beloved gets out alive -- America amok -- Betrayal -- The fantasy of purity is appalling -- The breasts -- Look homeward, angel -- Ghosts -- Forging ahead -- You never got me down -- Afterthoughts, memories, and discoveries : at it again.
520 $a"The story of Roth's creative life, [which] is not a biography-- though it contains a wealth of previously undisclosed biographical details and unpublished material--but something ultimately more rewarding: the exploration of a great writer through his art"--Dust jacket flap.
520 $a"Philip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our time. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award in 1960, and the explosion of Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 to his haunting reimagining of Anne Frank's story in The Ghost Writer ten years later and the series of masterworks starting in the mid-eighties--The Counterlife, Patrimony, Operation Shylock, Sabbath's Theater, American Pastoral, The Human Stain--Roth has produced some of the great American literature of the modern era. And yet there has been no major critical work about him until now. Here, at last, is the story of Roth's creative life. Roth Unbound is not a biography--though it contains a wealth of previously undisclosed biographical details and unpublished material--but something ultimately more rewarding: the exploration of a great writer through his art. Claudia Roth Pierpont, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has known Roth for nearly a decade. Her carefully researched and gracefully written account is filled with remarks from Roth himself, drawn from their ongoing conversations. Here are insights and anecdotes that will change the way many readers perceive this most controversial and galvanizing writer: a young and unhappily married Roth struggling to write; a wildly successful Roth, after the uproar over Portnoy, working to help writers from Eastern Europe and to get their books known in the West; Roth responding to the early, Jewish--and the later, feminist--attacks on his work. Here are Roth's family, his inspirations, his critics, the full range of his fiction, and his friendships with such figures as Saul Bellow and John Updike. Here is Roth at work and at play. Roth Unbound is a major achievement--a highly readable story that helps us make sense of one of the most vital literary careers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."--Publisher's description.
600 10 $aRoth, Philip$xCriticism and interpretation.
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