First printing and a very nice copy with some tanning to page edges and white of dustjacket, some light moisture tracks on top edge with some toning at top edge of boards. Light pencil erasure marks on FFEP. Dust jacket has bump to spine ends with light edgewear and a single closed tear down from the top 1/4 inch on front panel. Pages have no markings and jacket is not price-clipped.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Reading Myself and Others

Publisher

Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.

Publication Date

1975

Language

English

ISBN 10

0374247536

ISBN 13

9780374247539

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

Seller catalogs

Modern Fiction

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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.

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"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

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