Letting Go - Softcover

Roth, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140062564 ISBN 13: 9780140062564

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1984

Synopsis

Leting Go is Philip Roth's masterly novel about the social and ethical constraints of the fifties. "A rich book, full of incident, wry and sad and even in its most desolating scenes somehow amusing".--Elizabeth Hardwick, Harper's.

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From the Back Cover

"A first novel of awesome maturity." —James Atlas

"A rich book, full of incident, wry and sad and even in its most desolating scene somehow amusing." —Elizabeth Hardwick, Harper's

"[Roth] has the finest eye for the details of American life since Sinclair Lewis." —Stanley Edgar Hyman

About the Author

In 1997, Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for AMERICAN PASTORAL. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA received the Society of American Historians’ prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140062564
• ISBN 13: 9780140062564
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640