Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth

Pim, Keiron

ISBN 10: 1783785098 / ISBN 13: 9781783785094

Published by Granta Books, LONDON, 2022

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A black coloured hardback book, with block white titles running along the spine, comes with nice clean, not price clipped dust jacket. This wonderful book is in fine condition and as its a used book, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. This book actually looks like its hardly been read or used. 527 pages all intact and nice tight binding. First Edition, published in 2022 by Granta Publishing, London. The mercurial, self mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the 20th century masterpiece "The Radetzky March" was the finest observer and chronicler of his age. This book "Endless Flight" travels with Roth from his childhood in the town of Brody on the eastern edge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to an unsettled life spent roaming Europe between the wars, including spells in Vienna, Paris and Berlin. His decline mirrored the collapse of civilised Europe: in his last peripatetic decade, he opposed Nazism in Exile from Germany, his wife succumbed to schizophrenia and he died an alcoholic on the eve of the Second World War. Exploring the role of Roth's absent father in his imaginings, his attitude to his Jewishness and his restless search for home, Keiron Pim's gripping account of Roth's chaotic life speaks powerfully to us in our era of uncertainty, refugee crises, and rising ethno-nationalism. Published as Roth's works rapidly gain new readers and recognition, "Endless Flight" delivers a visceral yet sensitive portrait of his quest for belongings, and a riveting understanding of the brilliance and beauty of his work.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
• Publisher: Granta Books, LONDON
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783785098
• ISBN 13: 9781783785094
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 16W x 24.2H x 4.5D centimeters 16 centimeters width by 24.2 centimeters height by 4.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

The mercurial, self-mythologizing novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the 20th-century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was the finest observer and chronicler of his age.

Endless Flight travels with Roth from his childhood in the town of Brody on the eastern edge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to an unsettled life spent roaming Europe between the wars, including spells in Vienna, Paris and Berlin. His decline mirrored the collapse of civilized Europe: in his last peripatetic decade, he opposed Nazism in exile from Germany, his wife succumbed to schizophrenia and he died an alcoholic on the eve of WWII.

Exploring the role of Roth's absent father in his imaginings, his attitude to his Jewishness and his restless search for home, Keiron Pim's gripping account of Roth's chaotic life speaks powerfully to us in our era of uncertainty, refugee crises and rising ethno-nationalism. Published as Roth's works rapidly gain new readers and recognition, Endless Flight delivers a visceral yet sensitive portrait of his quest for belonging, and a riveting understanding of the brilliance and beauty of his work.

About the Author

Keiron Pim is the author of critically acclaimed Jumpin' Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock'n'Roll Underworld which was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and shortlisted in the Wales Book of the Year Awards' category for Creative Non-Fiction. He has written articles for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator. Alongside his writing, Pim works as a proofreader, an editor and a mentor to aspiring non-fiction authors. He lives in Norwich in England with his wife and three daughters.