Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977: The Great American Novel, My Life as a Man, The Professor of Desire

Langue : anglais

Edité par Library of America, New York, 2006

1931082960 / 9781931082969

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DEFINITIVE: INDISPENSABLE: BOLD: HILARIOUS: BIZARRE: POIGNANT: BLISTERING: NEW: First Edition hardcover(2006) First Printing, NEW LOA slipcase w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ double-rule gilt borders & LOA logo gilt-stamped on front panel, NEW rayon-weave Brillianta green fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & green-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ green silk ribbon page-marker bound-in from top, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Domtar Literary Opaque archival paper * 5.0" x 8.08" x 1.22", 0.57 kg, 912 pp. Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.42", 0.67 kg * CONTENTS: The Great American Novel (1), My Life as a Man (379), The Professor of Desire (679); Chronology (873), Note on the Texts (884), Notes (885) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This 3rd volume of the definitive LOA edition of Philip Roth's collected works presents 3 markedly different novels that together trace a crucial period in the bold evolution of one of America’s indispensable novelists. In "The Great American Novel" (1973), a hilarious, bizarre, strangely poignant tall tale of American pieties & American lunacy, Roth lifts the lid on the suppressed history of the homeless Ruppert Mundys of baseball's despised & vanquished 3rd major league, turning the national pastime into unfettered picaresque farce. The cast of improbable characters includes: Gil Gamesh, the pitcher who actually tried to kill the umpire; John Baal, the ex-con first baseman, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House", who never hit a home run sober; & the House Un-American Activities Committee. "My Life as a Man" (1974) is Roth's most blistering novel, the savage, sometimes lurid account of the all-out battle waged between the young writer Peter Tarnopol & the wife who is his nemesis, his demon, & his muse. This is the treacherous world of Strindberg nearly a century later: the story of a fierce marital tragedy of obsession & blindness & desperate need. The volume closes with "The Professor of Desire" (1977), which charts the 2nd sexual metamorphosis of David Kepesh, protagonist of "The Breast". Roth follows Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence & feeling, into a vast wilderness of erotic possibility. "The Professor of Desire" is the troublingly affecting novel about the dilemmas of desire that prompted Milan Kundera to proclaim Roth "a great historian of modern eroticism." * ABOUT THE EDITOR: ROSS MILLER is Professor of English & Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. His criticism has appeared in scholarly journals, The WSJ, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. He is the author of "American Apocalypse: The Great Fire & the Myth of Chicago" & "Here's the Deal: The Buying and Selling of a Great American City". * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).…

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Titre
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977: The Great American Novel, My Life as a Man, The Professor of Desire
Auteur
Roth, Philip; Ross Miller (Editor) wrote the chronology & notes for this volume
Éditeur
Library of America, New York
Année de publication
2006
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New
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New Slipcase
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1931082960
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781931082969
Édition
1st Edition
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1st Printing
Poids de l'article
0,67 kilogramme

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