Bibliograph

Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991, Philip Roth ; Ross Miller, editor

Type

Label

Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991, Philip Roth ; Ross Miller, editor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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contains biographical information

Illustrations

portraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

mixed forms

Main title

Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

223800821

Responsibility statement

Philip Roth ; Ross Miller, editor

Series statement

The Library of America, 185

Summary

"This fifth volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works presents four books that exemplify the description of Roth ... as a writer 'who never steps twice into the same river.' The Counterlife (1986) is a novel told from conflicting perspectives about people enacting drastic dreams of renewal and escape. The Facts (1987)--the first of the 'Roth Books'--is a novelist's autobiography in which the author presents his own battles defictionalized and unadorned. In the second Roth Book, Deception (1990), a married American named Philip, living in London, and the married Englishwoman who is his mistress meet sporadically in a secret trysting place where the woman eloquently reveals herself to her lover as they talk before and after making love. In the third Roth Book, Patrimony (1991), the author watches as his 86-year-old father, Herman Roth, battles a fatal brain tumor."--Jacket

Table Of Contents

The counterlife -- The facts : a novelist's autobiography -- Deception -- Patrimony : a true story

resource.variantTitle

Philip Roth, novels & other narratives, 1986-1991

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