Philip Roth: A Counterlife by Ira Nadel (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Philip Roth by Ira Nadel This new biography of the controversial, influential, and prize-winning American novelist Philip Roth, a writer with an international reputation for inventive, original novels from Portnoys Complaint to American Pastoral and The Plot Against America, is based on new access to archival documents and new interviews with Roths friends and associates. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer.Philip 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 with a number of themost important writers of his time from Primo Levi and Milan Kundera to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow and Edna OBrien. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and the Man Booker International Prize,Roth maintained a remarkable productivity throughout a career that 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 identity of the man. Author Biography Ira Nadel 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 & Form, Joyce and the Jews and Modernisms Second Act, in addition to a Critical Companion to Philip Roth. Table of Contents Introduction1. Newark, Newark2. Declaration of Independence3. An Education in Intensity4. "Walked out on the Platinum!" or New York, New York5. Death and Freedom6 Portnoy: Let it Rip!7. Jewish Wheaties8. Traveling with Kafka9. Supercarnal Productions10. Zuckerman Live!11. Psychoanalysis and Laxatives, or Democracy in America12. Quintet or The Jersey Style13. Coda: "Its a miserable life"Index Review "Sizeable, solidly researched, intelligently wrought." -- London Review of Books"In its critical substance DL scholarship and literary insight DS its really a better book, a more understanding book, than Baileys." -- Josh Gidding, Metapsychology.net"Well researched and clearly written... full of insights." -- Jewish Chronicle"Ira Nadels Philip Roth: A Counterlife is an intense and illuminating study of the life, times, and work of the Jewish man from Newark who became one of Americas most original and provocative writers." -- Kristine Morris, Foreword Reviews, Starred Review"In Philip Roth: A Counterlife, Ira Nadel exposes the multifaceted disposition of this major voice in American letters: Roth the realist, the ironist, the ventriloquist, the impersonator, the bard. In navigating the intricacies and dualities of the public and private Roth, Nadel shows the complexities, the contradictions, and the counterlives both lived and imagined. As literary sleuth, Nadel has enriched the myriad possibilities for understanding thisexacting and defiant writer and his work." -- Victoria Aarons, O.R. & Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature, Department of English, Trinity University"Professor Nadels study is always very readable and compelling but its discussion of material that has never been accessed before is particularly exciting." -- David Brauner, Professor of Contemporary Literature, The University of Reading"Philip Roth: A Counterlife engages and illuminates the scenes of discontent, betrayal, illness, and rage in Roths own life that allow for new understandings of his work and relationships. Drawing on such primary source material as interviews, personal correspondence, and site visits, Nadels biography penetrates the carefully composed narrative Roth presented publicly in order to present a "counter" Philip Roth, one who is at once more sympathetic tohis readers than critics realize and more dynamic than even his self-creation allows. Nadel seamlessly weaves his interpretations of Roths most provocative texts into the story of Roths own life: a lifeshadowed by pain, illness, and personal injustices, but also illuminated by the joys of writing, ideas, and friendships that will persist long after his death." -- Aimee Pozorski, Co-executive editor of Philip Roth Studies, Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University"An admiring and well-researched yet selective account of a great writers career."--Kirkus"An unrestrained portrait of an irascible figure, Nadels account is an enlightening addition to the understanding of a major American writer."--Publishers Weekly"Well researched and clearly written... full of insights."--Jewish Chronicle"Ira Nadels Philip Roth: A Counterlife is the book weve been waiting for. Its revealing, perceptive, sensitive, sensible, and immensely readable, a triumph of insight and scholarship."--Jewish Book Council"Sizeable, solidly researched, intelligently wrought."--London Review of Books Long Description This new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer.Philip 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 with a number of the most important writers of his time from Primo Levi and Milan Kundera to Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow and Edna OBrien. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, andthe Man Booker International Prize, Roth maintained a remarkable productivity throughout a career that 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 identity of the man. Review Text "Nadels research is so thorough that even Beth Roths recipe for marble pound cake appears in full in the endnotes (chapter 8, note 101). There will be other biographies of Roth and his work, biographies that offer different understandings, but they will likely always find themselves competing with this volume, which for now at least is in the class of the heavyweights." -- J. A. Zoller, emeritus, Houghton College"This deeply thought book is rich with information and insight and will be a huge benefit to the scholarly community mushrooming up around Roths works as well as to the general reader interested in the riveting life of an important American writer." -- Brett Ashley Kaplan, Cercle"Sizeable, solidly researched, intelligently wrought." -- London Review of Books"In its critical substance DL scholarship and literary insight DS its really a better book, a more understanding book, than Baileys." -- Josh Gidding, Metapsychology.net"Well researched and clearly written... full of insights." -- Jewish Chronicle"Ira Nadels Philip Roth: A Counterlife is an intense and illuminating study of the life, times, and work of the Jewish man from Newark who became one of Americas most original and provocative writers." -- Kristine Morris, Foreword Reviews, Starred Review"In Philip Roth: A Counterlife, Ira Nadel exposes the multifaceted disposition of this major voice in American letters: Roth the realist, the ironist, the ventriloquist, the impersonator, the bard. In navigating the intricacies and dualities of the public and private Roth, Nadel shows the complexities, the contradictions, and the counterlives both lived and imagined. As literary sleuth, Nadel has enriched the myriad possibilities for understanding thisexacting and defiant writer and his work." -- Victoria Aarons, O.R. & Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature, Department of English, Trinity University"Professor Nadels study is always very readable and compelling but its discussion of material that has never been accessed before is particularly exciting." -- David Brauner, Professor of Contemporary Literature, The University of Reading"Philip Roth: A Counterlife engages and illuminates the scenes of discontent, betrayal, illness, and rage in Roths own life that allow for new understandings of his work and relationships. Drawing on such primary source material as interviews, personal correspondence, and site visits, Nadels biography penetrates the carefully composed narrative Roth presented publicly in order to present a "counter" Philip Roth, one who is at once more sympathetic tohis readers than critics realize and more dynamic than even his self-creation allows. Nadel seamlessly weaves his interpretations of Roths most provocative texts into the story of Roths own life: a lifeshadowed by pain, illness, and personal injustices, but also illuminated by the joys of writing, ideas, and friendships that will persist long after his death." -- Aimee Pozorski, Co-executive editor of Philip Roth Studies, Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University"An admiring and well-researched yet selective account of a great writers career."--Kirkus"An unrestrained portrait of an irascible figure, Nadels account is an enlightening addition to the understanding of a major American writer."--Publishers Weekly"Well researched and clearly written... full of insights."--Jewish Chronicle"Ira Nadels Philip Roth: A Counterlife is the book weve been waiting for. Its revealing, perceptive, sensitive, sensible, and immensely readable, a triumph of insight and scholarship."--Jewish Book Council"Sizeable, solidly researched, intelligently wrought."--London Review of Books Review Quote "Well researched and clearly written... full of insights." -- Jewish Chronicle "Ira Nadels Philip Roth: A Counterlife is an intense and illuminating study of the life, times, and work of the Jewish man from Newark who became one of Americas most original and provocative writers." -- Kristine Morris, Foreword Reviews, Starred Review "In Philip Roth: A Counterlife, Ira Nadel exposes the multifaceted disposition of this major voice in American letters: Roth the realist, the ironist, the ventriloquist, the impersonator, the bard. In navigating the intricacies and dualities of the public and private Roth, Nadel shows the complexities, the contradictions, and the counterlives both lived and imagined. As literary sleuth, Nadel has enriched the myriad possibilities for understanding this exacting and defiant writer and his work." -- Victoria Aarons, O.R. & Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature, Department of English, Trinity University "Professor Nadels study is always very readable and compelling but its discussion of material that has never been accessed before is particularly exciting." -- David Brauner, Professor of Contemporary Literature, The University of Reading "Philip Roth: A Counterlife engages and illuminates the scenes of discontent, betrayal, illness, and rage in Roths own life that allow for new understandings of his work and relationships. Drawing on such primary source material as interviews, personal correspondence, and site visits, Nadels biography penetrates the carefully composed narrative Roth presented publicly in order to present a "counter" Philip Roth, one who is at once more sympathetic to his readers than critics realize and more dynamic than even his self-creation allows. Nadel seamlessly weaves his interpretations of Roths most provocative texts into the story of Roths own life: a life shadowed by pain, illness, and personal injustices, but also illuminated by the joys of writing, ideas, and friendships that will persist long after his death." -- Aimee Pozorski, Co-executive editor of Philip Roth Studies, Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University "An admiring and well-researched yet selective account of a great writers career."--Kirkus "An unrestrained portrait of an irascible figure, Nadels account is an enlightening addition to the understanding of a major American writer."--Publishers Weekly "Well researched and clearly written... full of insights."--Jewish Chronicle Feature Selling point: Includes new discoveries from archival documents not previously knownSelling point: Based on interviews with a number of Roths associates and friendsSelling point: Offers a new and full account of Roths development as a writer New Feature Introduction 1. Newark, Newark 2. Declaration of Independence 3. An Education in Intensity 4. "Walked out on the Platinum!" or New York, New York 5. Death and Freedom 6 Portnoy: Let it Rip! 7. Jewish Wheaties 8. Traveling with Kafka 9. Supercarnal Productions 10. Zuckerman Live! 11. Psychoanalysis and Laxatives, or Democracy in America 12. Quintet or The Jersey Style 13. Coda: "Its a miserable life" Index Details ISBN0199846103 Author Ira Nadel Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Year 2021 ISBN-10 0199846103 ISBN-13 9780199846108 Format Hardcover Short Title Philip Roth Language English Subtitle A Counterlife DEWEY 813.54 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2021-05-27 UK Release Date 2021-05-27 NZ Release Date 2021-05-27 US Release Date 2021-05-27 Audience General AU Release Date 2021-05-16 Pages 576 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131831160;

Price: 70.94 AUD

Location: Melbourne

End Time: 2025-01-22T03:07:46.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 AUD