THE "NEMESES" QUARTET: EVERYMAN, INDIGNATION, THE HUMBLING, NEMESIS: NOVELS 2006-2010 - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Library of America Hardcover Slipcased Edition/First Printing: Signed by Philip Roth - ONLY SIGNED COPY ONLINE

Roth, Philip

ISBN 10: 1598531999 / ISBN 13: 9781598531992

Published by New York City, NY: The Library Of America, 2013

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 470 pages. Published in 2013. Volume Nine of The Library of America's definitive Collected Works of Philip Roth. The First Hardcover Slipcased Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Printed to the highest standards on acid-free paper, utilizing sewn binding, closely woven rayon cloth boards, satin bound-in ribbon marker, and a page layout that is both readable and elegant, each volume is guaranteed to last for several generations of readers and collectors (despite frequent and regular use, the estimated life span of Library of America Editions is 1000 years; un-used, they will last forever). Each volume is scrupulously edited and annotated by Ross Miller. Presents Volume Nine of The Collected Works of Philip Roth: "Everyman", "Indignation", "The Humbling", and "Nemesis". His "twilight" quartet, which continue to demonstrate the range and originality of Philip Roth's fictional art. Harold Bloom regarded them, individually and collectively, as major minor Roth. That they are: Rigorously - and intentionally - condensed novella-length novels, a moving and often harrowing "summing-up" of the Rothian universe, not made easily digestible - and not at all easy reading - for the reader. "One knows when one is reading something that will permanently enter the culture" (Cynthia Ozick). "Our foremost novelist since Faulkner" (Harold Bloom). Philip Roth was only the third writer to be so honored by The Library of America while still alive. Published in chronological order, the entire oeuvre consists of ten volumes in all and will surely be regarded as one of the "high spots" in The Library of America Series. After completing his quartet, Roth famously announced in 2012 that he has permanently stopped writing. Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018 of congestive heart failure, literally of heartbreak, at the age of 85. An absolute "must-have" title for Philip Roth collectors. This copy of Volume Nine is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Philip Roth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Library of America Hardcover Slipcased Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, have the bookstore's stamp, or are subsequent printings yet command hundreds of dollars. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Six of Philip Roth's novels were selected as among the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years: "American Pastoral", "The Counterlife", "Operation Shylock", "Sabbath's Theater", "The Human Stain", and "The Plot Against America". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIP ROTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1598531999.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE "NEMESES" QUARTET: EVERYMAN, INDIGNATION, THE HUMBLING, NEMESIS: NOVELS 2006-2010 - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Library of America Hardcover Slipcased Edition/First Printing: Signed by Philip Roth - ONLY SIGNED COPY ONLINE
• Publisher: New York City, NY: The Library Of America
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1598531999
• ISBN 13: 9781598531992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

What kind of choices fatally shape a life? How does the individual withstand the onslaught of circumstance? These are the dark questions that animate Nemeses, the quartet of thematically related short novels that are published here together for the first time in this final volume of The Library of America’s definitive edition of Philip Roth’s collected works. Everyman (2006) is the sparse and affecting story of one man’s lifelong skirmish with mortality. Set against the backdrop of the Korean War, Indignation (2008) is the extraordinary narrative of a young man struggling against the conformity of McCarthy-era America and his father’s overwhelming fear. In The Humbling (2009), aging actor Simon Axler embarks on a risky and aberrant affair in a desperate attempt to recoup his lost artistic gifts. And in Nemesis (2010), Roth offers an exacting portrait of the emotions—fear and anger, bewilderment and grief—bred by a polio epidemic in Newark in the summer of 1944.

Philip Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by The Library of America. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, the PEN/Faulkner Award three times, the National Medal of Arts, and the Gold Medal in Fiction, the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

About the Author

ROSS MILLER,editor, is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut and has taught at Yale, Wesleyan, and Trinity College. He is the author of American Apocalypse: The Great Fire and the Myth of Chicago and Here’s the Deal: The Buying and Selling of a Great American City.