Philip Roth at 80

Roth, Philip

ISBN 10: 1598534130 / ISBN 13: 9781598534139

Published by The Library of America, New York, 2014

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First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in dark green boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. 74 pages. A rare, publishers subscribers advance edition of the special commemorative volume, Philip Roth at 80: A Celebration (Remarks delivered on the occasion).On March 19, 2013, a distinguished group of writers and critics gathered in Newark, NJ, to celebrate the extraordinary career and lasting literary legacy of Mr. Roth. Speakers' remarks included in this volume are: Jonathan Lethan, Hermione Lee, Alain Finkielkraut, Claudia Roth Pierpont, Edna O'Brien, and Philip Roth. Publsiher's letter laid in. A fine unread copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Philip Roth at 80
• Publisher: The Library of America, New York
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598534130
• ISBN 13: 9781598534139
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

On March 19, 2013, a distinguished group of writers and critics gathered at the Newark Museum’s Billy Johnson Auditorium in Newark, New Jersey, to celebrate the extraordinary career and lasting literary legacy of Philip Roth on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This keepsake volume gathers remarks from the evening’s speakers, a fitting tribute to the only living novelist whose work is collected in the Library of America series. Here you’ll find Jonathan Lethem, hilariously recounting his first consciousness-raising encounter with Roth’s work through the Kafkaesque novel The Breast; Hermione Lee, tracing the Shakespearian themes in Roth’s books, from Portnoy’s Complaint to The Humbling; Alain Finkielkraut, offering a deep reading of Roth’s final novel, Nemesis; Claudia Roth Pierpont, assessing Roth’s portrayal of women in such books as Sabbath’s Theater and The Human Stain; Edna O’Brien, recalling her long friendship with Roth; and the author himself, offering a quintessentially Rothian valediction.