Random House, New York, 1971. First edition. Second printing, with number line to 2 (and no statement of FIRST EDITION). Near Fine, with slight fading to cloth spine. Lacks the dust jacket. A clean, tight copy. Philip Roth's fifth novel. A marked departure from his previous book, Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang is a political satire written in the form of a closet drama. Centered on the character of "Trick E. Dixon", a caricature of then-President Richard Nixon, the book takes its cue from an actual quote from Nixon: "From personal and religious beliefs I consider abortions an unacceptable form of population control." Roth was inspired to write Our Gang by Nixon making this statement on the same week he ordered William Calley's release from prison to house arrest.] As the book is written entirely as dialogue, Roth uses stage directions, such as "impish endearing smile", when Dixon is talking.

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Title: Our Gang
Publisher: Random House, New York
Publication Date: 1971
Language: English
ISBN 10: 039447886X
ISBN 13: 9780394478869
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Very near fine in a like dustjacket. Hardcover first edition - New York:: Random House,, (1971.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Roth's fifth novel; A political satire in the great tradition, an indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon, but one which resonates now with a character who speaks the sort of debased language that is designed, in the words of George Orwell, "to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." 200 pp.

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"Disturbing, logical...and very funny.... In short, a masterpiece."—The New York Times Book Review

"Perhaps the funniest and most complex exercise in sustained political satire since Animal Farm." — Newsweek

"Outrageously hilarious." —Saturday Review of Books

"Brilliant satire in the real Swift tradition." —Anthony Burgess

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