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The Humbling - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Roth, Philip
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0547239696
- ISBN 13
- 9780547239699
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0547239696 . First edition, first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dust jacket, SIGNED by author Philip Roth directly on the title page. Without dreaded bookstore stamp; Philip Roth's 30th book is the third in a quartet. Like the two preceding short novels, "Everyman," and "Indignation," "The Humbling" is deeply melancholy. The tale focuses on Simon Axler, renowned actor who has lost his gifts. His wife leaves him, he is briefly institutionalized, and after he is released, he falls into a spiritless routine when he meets a younger woman and is recharged, even hopeful; 8vo; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18615
- Title
- The Humbling - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Roth, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0547239696
- ISBN 13
- 9780547239699
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print
- Bookseller catalogs
- Legendary Authors / Roth, Philip;
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