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Phillip Roth / Novels 1973-1977 / 2006, Library of America 165 / 1st Edition
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Item specifics
- Seller Notes
- Country of Origin
- America
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Custom Bundle
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Inscribed
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Original Language
- English
- Personalized
- No
- Book Series
- Library of America # 165
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Signed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Era
- 1970s
- ISBN
- 9781931082969
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This third volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works presents three 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 and American lunacy, Roth lifts the lid on the suppressed history of the homeless Ruppert Mundys of baseball's despised and vanquished third 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; and 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 and the wife who is his nemesis, his demon, and his muse. This is the treacherous world of Strindberg nearly a century later: the story of a fierce marital tragedy of obsession and blindness and desperate need. The volume closes with The Professor of Desire (1977), which charts the second sexual metamorphosis of David Kepesh, protagonist of The Breast . Roth follows Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and 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." 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1931082960
ISBN-13
9781931082969
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52613661
Product Key Features
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Literary, Sports, Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Weight
21 Oz
Item Width
5.2in
Additional Product Features
Book Title
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (LOA #165) : The Great American Novel / My Life As a Man / the Professor of Desire
Lccn
2006-041030
Series Volume Number
3
Age Range
18
Edition Description
Annotated Edition
Lc Classification Number
Ps3568.O855a6 2006
Publication Year
2006
Series
Library of America Philip Roth Edition Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Target Audience
Trade
Number of Pages
906 Pages
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