Reading Myself and Others

Roth, Philip

ISBN 10: 0679749071 / ISBN 13: 9780679749073

Published by Vintage International, 2001

About this Item

Softcover. White paper covers, with gold and black lettering on the spine and front cover, and two black-and-white pictorial illustrations on the front cover. No date listed on title page; copyright page dated 2001. 302 pages. Very good condition. Minor wear to edges and corners. Binding is square and sturdy, and pages are free from unwanted markings. Signed by the author, in black ink, on the title page. A collection of essays by the American author Philip Roth.

Seller Inventory # 8-1841

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading Myself and Others
• Publisher: Vintage International
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679749071
• ISBN 13: 9780679749073
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Fascinating interviews, essays, and articles spanning a quarter century on writing, baseball, American fiction, and American Jews—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

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

Here is Philip Roth on himself and his work and the controversies it's engendered. Here too are Roth's writings on the Eastern European writers he has always championed, and so much more. The essential collection of nonfiction by a true American master, Reading Myself and Others features his famed long interview with the Paris Review.

About the Author

PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.” Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.