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Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) [1] was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey —is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious ...
Among his novels are satires, romps, dramas, alternate histories, metafictional experiments, meditative explorations, period pieces, and grand indictments of the American century.
Philip Roth has 257 books on Goodreads with 1002581 ratings. Philip Roth’s most popular book is American Pastoral.
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Apr 19, 2021 · Now, it’s a task to narrow his 31 books down into an essential list. All of them are readable; most of them are good; and more of them masterpieces than a fellow novelist who is frankly faltering...
May 22, 2018 · He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection Goodbye, Columbus, which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller Portnoy's Complaint. Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books.
May 12, 1997 · Philip Roth. 3.94. 80,671 ratings6,027 reviews. Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov—a legendary high school athlete, a ...
Short stories and reviews. Essays. Collections. Library of America editions. The first nine volumes are edited by Ross Miller, the last by the author himself. Adaptations. Roth's adaptations of works by others. Theatre Adaptation of It Isn't Fair by Jean Rhys (in collaboration with David Plante ), 1977.
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Sep 27, 2005 · In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh.
