WHY WRITE? COLLECTED NONFICTION 1960-2013 [First American edition - second printing]

Philip Roth

ISBN 10: 1598535404 / ISBN 13: 9781598535402

Edité par The Library of America, New York, 2017

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First impression of the first American edition, published by the Library of America. Second printing stated on the printer's page. Volume Ten of The Library of America's definitive Collected Works of Philip Roth. ***Near fine in green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine. Boards clean and unmarked. No bumping. Corners sharp. Internally also near fine, with no faults. Pages crisp and white. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which retains the original publisher's price of $35.00. Extremities of dustwrapper just very slightly rubbed and creased. Spine and front and rear panels of dustwrapper bright. No chips. No tears. ***452 pages including an extensive Chronology, Notes on the Texts, Notes and Index at the back of the book. 207 x 130 mm. ***'Tracing the full span of Philip Roth's career--from the early controversies surrounding the stories in "Goodbye, Columbus" to his recent assessments of his work and corrections of the record--"Why Write?" shows at every turn the vigor, acuity, and persuasive power of Roth's brilliant nonfiction. As a retrospective summation of his essays and interviews, it is essential reading in tandem with Roth's novels, both for the discussions of his own books and as a record of his profound engagement with other writers: Kafka, Bellow, Malamud, and the leading figures of Cold War-era Czechoslovakia among them. ***Divided into three sections, "Why Write?" begins with Roth's selection of the indispensable core of "Reading Myself and Others", first published in 1975 and expanded for a second edition ten years later. The volume's second section presents in its entirety the 2001 book "Shop Talk", a series of conversations with writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Primo Levi, and Edna O'Brien, as well as essays on Malamud, Bellow, and the artist Philip Guston. The concluding section, "Explanations," comprises fourteen later pieces collected here for the first time, six of them never before published.' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***Philip Roth's definitive edition of his essential statements on writing, literature, his novels, and American life.' (Quote taken from the back panel of the dustwrapper). ***'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; unused, they will last forever). Each volume is scrupulously edited and annotated by Ross Miller.' ***Second printing of the first American edition, published as Volume Ten of The Library of America's definitive Collected Works of Philip Roth. In its original dustwrapper in bright near fine condition. Uncommon in the UK. A beautiful copy. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: WHY WRITE? COLLECTED NONFICTION 1960-2013 [First American edition - second printing]
• Éditeur: The Library of America, New York
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1598535404
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781598535402
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First American Edtion
• Impression: Second Printing
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature
  • First Editions

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Synopsis

America’s most celebrated writer returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature, his controversial novels, and the writing life, including including six pieces published here for the first time and many others newly revised.

Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes two National Book Awards (Goodbye, Columbus, 1959 and Sabbath’s Theater, 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (American Pastoral, 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Counterlife, 1986), and the National Humanities Medal (awarded by President Obama in 2011), among many other honors, Philip Roth has produced an extraordinary body of nonfiction writing on a wide range of topics: his own work and that of the writers he admires, the creative process, and the state of American culture. This work is collected for the first time in Why Write?, the tenth and final volume in the Library of America’s definitive Philip Roth edition. Here is Roth’s selection of the indispensable core of Reading Myself and Others, the entirety of the 2001 book Shop Talk, and “Explanations,” a collection of fourteen later pieces brought together here for the first time, six never before published. Among the essays gathered are “My Uchronia,” an account of the genesis of The Plot Against America, a novel grounded in the insight that “all the assurances are provisional, even here in a two-hundred-year-old democracy”; “Errata,” the unabridged version of the “Open Letter to Wikipedia” published on The New Yorker’s website in 2012 to counter the online encyclopedia’s egregious errors about his life and work; and “The Ruthless Intimacy of Fiction,” a speech delivered on the occasion of his eightieth birthday that celebrates the “refractory way of living” of Sabbath’s Theater’s Mickey Sabbath. Also included are two lengthy interviews given after Roth’s retirement, which take stock of a lifetime of work.

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.

À propos de l?auteur

In 1997, Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral and in 2002 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. His collected works have been published in a definitive ten-volume edition by the Library of America.