Reading Myself and Others (First Edition)

Roth, Philip

ISBN 10: 0374247536 / ISBN 13: 9780374247539

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1975

About this Item

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Full green cloth, with gilt spine lettering and green painted top edge (very bright). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($8.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 270 pages. This book comprises twenty-three essays, many devoted to Philip Roth himself and his books, and others on writers including Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Norman Mailer, Milan Kundera, and Franz Kafka, along with broader reflections on literature and culture. Together, they offer a candid and incisive look at Roth s literary development and his critical engagements with his contemporaries. Roth (1933 2018) was one of the most acclaimed American novelists of the twentieth century, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. This was his ninth book and first work of nonfiction.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading Myself and Others (First Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374247536
• ISBN 13: 9780374247539
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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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