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My Life as a Man (Vintage International)

My Life as a Man (Vintage International) Paperback - 1994

by Roth, Philip

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  • Title My Life as a Man (Vintage International)
  • Author Roth, Philip
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1994-01-13
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR001860178
  • ISBN 9780679748274 / 067974827X
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.2 x 0.74 in (20.27 x 13.21 x 1.88 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Married people - United States - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93015504
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.

From the jacket flap

A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel.
At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen's death, Peter is still trying--and failing--to write his way free of it. Out of desperate inventions and cauterizing truths, acts of weakness, tenderheartedness, and shocking cruelty, Philip Roth creates a work worthy of Strindberg--a fierce tragedy of sexual need and blindness.

Media reviews

"Roth's best.... No writer alive can sustain a full-length novel at as high a decibel level as Philip Roth." —Newsweek

"[My Life as a Man is] a scalding, unique addition to the lasting literature about men and women." —Newsday

"A very grand work...in invention, in perception...in coming to grips with the wild inconsistencies of life and art." —New York

Citations

  • New York Times Book Review, 03/16/2014, Page 14
  • Newsweek, 10/01/2007, Page 80

About the author

PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004." Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.

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