Exit Ghost Philip Roth Novel 1st Edition First Printing Fiction Novella

Description: Exit Ghost by Philip Roth 2007 ~ 1st Edition, 1st Printing w/ complete # line & $26.00 intact on DJ One of Americas Greatest Writers Ever!!! Houghton, 2007. VG++, minor shelf wear, clean, tight and bright. A collectible solid quality copy! Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 story collection Goodbye, Columbus, and has since become one of the most honored authors of his generation: Roths books have twice been awarded the National Book Award, twice the National Book Critics Circle award, and three times the PEN/Faulkner Award. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel, American Pastoral. His 2001 novel The Human Stain was awarded the United Kingdoms WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year.Two of Roths works of fiction have won the National Book Award; two others were finalists. Two have won National Book Critics Circle awards; again, another two were finalists. He has also won three PEN/Faulkner Awards (Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman) and a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his 1997 novel, American Pastoral. In 2001, The Human Stain was awarded the United Kingdoms WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year. In 2002, he was awarded the National Book Foundations Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Literary critic Harold Bloom has named him as one of the four major American novelists still at work, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Cormac McCarthy. His 2004 novel The Plot Against America won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2005 as well as the Society of American Historians’ James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction. Roth was also awarded the United Kingdoms WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year, an award Roth has received twice.He was honored in his hometown in October 2005 when then-mayor Sharpe James presided over the unveiling of a street sign in Roths name on the corner of Summit and Keer Avenues where Roth lived for much of his childhood, a setting prominent in The Plot Against America. A plaque on the house where the Roths lived was also unveiled. In May 2006, he was given the PEN/Nabokov Award, and in 2007 he was awarded the PEN/Faulkner award for Everyman, making him the awards only three-time winner. In April 2007, he was chosen as the recipient of the first PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. The May 21, 2006 issue of The New York Times Book Review announced the results of a letter that was sent to what the publication described as a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to please identify the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.' Six of Roths novels were in the 22 selected: American Pastoral, The Counterlife, Operation Shylock, Sabbaths Theater, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America. The accompanying essay, written by critic A.O. Scott, stated, If we had asked for the single best writer of fiction of the past 25 years, [Roth] would have won.

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