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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Tracing 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.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Tracing 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.…

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Tracing 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.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Tracing 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.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Philip Roth returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature, his controversial novels, and the writing life, including six pieces published here for the first time and many others newly revisedAmerica's most celebrated writer returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature, his controversial novels, and the writing life, includingincluding 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'sdefinitive 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 ofhis eightieth birthday that celebrates the "refractory way of living" of Sabbath's Theater's Mickey Sabbath. Alsoincluded are two lengthy interviews given after Roth's retirement, which take stock of a lifetime of work.LIBRARY OF AMERICAis 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. Philip Roth returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature, his controversial novels, and the writing life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Stated First Printing. 452pp. (LOA #300) Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "Tracing 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--WHY WRITE? shows at every turn the vigor, acuity, and persuasive power of Roth's brilliant nonfiction. As a retrospective summation of his essays and interviews, it is essential reading in tandem with Roth's novels, both for the discussions of his own books and as a record of his profound engagement with other writers: Kafka, Bellow, Malamud, and the leading figures of Cold War-era Czechoslovakia among them. [] Divided into three sections, WHY WRITE? begins with Roth's selection of the indispensable core of Reading Myself and Others, first published in 1975 and expanded for a second edition ten years later. It opens with the remarkable hybrid story-essay, 'I Always Wanted You to Admire My Fasting'; or, Looking at Kafka,' a critical evaluation that yields to a fictional imagination of Kafka as young Roth's Hebrew School teacher in 1940s Newark, the first of the provocative forays into speculative alternative realities that would take shape in novels like The Ghost Writer and The Plot Against America. In the essays and interviews given in the wake of the explosive release of Portnoy's Complaint, Roth clarifies how he sought to 'raise obscenity to the level of a subject,' provides sharp-edged insights into an Ameriica wracked by political turmoil and sexual revolution, and defends the imaginative freedom oof writers and readers alike. [] The volume's second section presents in its entirety the 2001 book Shop Talk, a series of conversations with writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Primo Levi, and Edna O'Brien, as well as essays on Malamud, Bellow, and the artist Philip Guston. The collection highlights Roth's skill as an astute literary interlocutor, engaged with writers whose traditions, assumptions, and experience can differ markedly from those of the American world of his own fiction. [] The concluding section, 'Explanations,' comprises fourteen later pieces collected here for the first time, six of them never before published. Among the essays gathered are 'My Uchronia,' an account of the genesis of The Plot Against America; 'Forty-Five Years On,' Roth's absolute last word on Portnoy; and 'The Ruthless Intimacy of Fiction,' a speech delivered on the occasion of his eightieth birthday that evokes the Newark of Roth's childhood. Also included are two lengthy interviews given after Roth's retirement, which take stock of a lifetime of work: 'Morning after morning for fifty years, I faced the next page defenseless and unprepared. Writing for me was a feat of self-preservation.'" [jacket copy] Near-pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a bright-as-new jacket.…