{"product_id":"philip-roth-a-counterlife-hardcover","title":"Philip Roth: A Counterlife - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNadel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhilip Roth was much more than a Jewish writer from Newark, as this new biography reveals. His life encompassed writing some of the most original novels in American literature, publishing censored writers from Eastern Europe, surviving less than satisfactory marriages, and developing friendships\u003cbr\u003ewith a number of the most important writers of his time from Primo Levi and Milan Kundera to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow and Edna O'Brien. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and the Man Booker International Prize, Roth maintained a remarkable productivity throughout a career\u003cbr\u003ethat spanned almost fifty years, creating 31 works. But beneath the success was illness, angst, and anxiety often masked from his readers. This biography, drawing on archives, interviews and his books, delves into the shaded world of Philip Roth to identify the ghosts, the character, and even\u003cbr\u003eidentity of the man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIra Nadel\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and is the author of biographies of Leonard Cohen, Tom Stoppard, David Mamet and Leon Uris. He has also published Biography: Fiction Fact \u0026amp; Form, \u003cem\u003eJoyce and the Jews \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eModernism's Second Act\u003c\/em\u003e, in addition to a \u003cem\u003eCritical Companion to Philip Roth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.1 x 9.4 x 6.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 10, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52148487618791,"sku":"9780199846108","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8329\/8279\/files\/3be0e7a65a99603cb52ba540c75d1b56.webp?v=1780387616","url":"https:\/\/skinnonsmooth.myshopify.com\/products\/philip-roth-a-counterlife-hardcover","provider":"SkinnOnSmooth","version":"1.0","type":"link"}