Our Gang (Starring Tricky and His Friends)

Roth, Philip

ISBN 10: 0552089761 / ISBN 13: 9780552089760

Published by Corgi Books, London, 1972

About this Item

Front cover blurb: "Brilliant satire in the real Swift tradition, very funny, and about as acerbic as you can get". Mass market paperback. Printed in Great Britain. Slight handling wear, otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 142pp. SB-99.

Seller Inventory # 037567

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Our Gang (Starring Tricky and His Friends)
• Publisher: Corgi Books, London
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0552089761
• ISBN 13: 9780552089760
• Binding: Pictorial Wraps
• Edition: First Thus
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang is Philip Roth’s brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.
In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn’t have a problem with killing unarmed women and children in self-defense. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on Pro-Pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting public.

Author Biography: In the 1990s Philip Roth won America's four major literary awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony (1991), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock (1993), the National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater (1995), and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for American Pastoral (1997). He won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist (1998); in the same year he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. Previously he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife (1986) and the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). In 2000 he published The Human Stain, concluding a trilogy that depicts the ideological ethos of postwar America. For The Human Stain Roth received his second PEN/Faulkner Award as well as Britain's W. H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in fiction, given every six years "for the entire work of the recipient."

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A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang" is Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.
In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn't have a problem with killing unarmed women and children in self-defense. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on Pro-Pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting public.