READING MYSELF AND OTHERS.

Roth, Philip.

ISBN 10: 0374247536 / ISBN 13: 9780374247539

Published by FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX. NY 1975, 1975

About this Item

First Edition. Fine in close to fine dust jacket. (Slight discoloration at spine on jacket. ).

Seller Inventory # 10224

Bibliographic Details

• Title: READING MYSELF AND OTHERS.
• Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX. NY 1975
• Publication Date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0374247536
• ISBN 13: 9780374247539
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The interviews, essays, and articles collected here span a quarter century of Philip Roth's distinguished career and "reveal [a] preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the unwritten world." Here is Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it has engendered. Here too are Roth's writings on the Eastern European writers he has always championed; and on baseball, American fiction, and American Jews. The essential collection of nonfiction by a true American master,Reading Myself and Others features his long interview with The Paris Review.

From the Back Cover

"An illuminating...glimpse of the theory and practice that have made Roth a major figure in American fiction.... Reveals a first-rate mind." —Chicago Daily News

"Roth [is] fearless in his own defense and in defense of literature." —Michael Mewshaw, Texas Monthly

"Excellent.... Roth's sensitivity to the balance of situations in his own fiction is Jamesian in its subtlety, and indeed in its nature this book is closer to James's prefaces than to any other book...consistently thoughtful and thoroughly engaging." —Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post