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Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) [1] was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of ...
Sabbath's Theater is a novel by Philip Roth about the exploits of 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath. It won the 1995 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction . [ 1 ] The cover is a detail of Sailor and Girl (1925) by German painter Otto Dix .
Stephen Milowitz, Philip Roth Considered: The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer, New York: Garland Press, 2000 Jay L. Halio (ed.), Philip Roth , special issue of Shofar , 19, 1, 2000 Nandita Singh, Philip Roth: A Novelist in Crisis , New Delhi: Classical Publishing, 2001
The play centers on 64-year-old puppet maker Mickey Sabbath. When his secret life of debauchery comes to an end, he plunges into bizarre encounters.
Goodbye, Columbus is a 1959 collection of fiction by the American novelist Philip Roth. The compilation includes the title novella, "Goodbye, Columbus," originally published in The Paris Review, along with five short stories. It was Roth's first book and was published by Houghton Mifflin.
The Professor of Desire is a 1977 novel by Philip Roth. It describes the youth, the college years and the academic career of professor David Kepesh, and beside that, his sexual desires. It describes the youth, the college years and the academic career of professor David Kepesh, and beside that, his sexual desires.
Roth turned the screw of fantasy and myth one notch higher than others and ended up with a work far truer to the sport: He knew his target, loved it dearly, and knew as well what exaggerations it could withstand." Roth, best known for Portnoy's Complaint and American Pastoral, won a life-achievement medal last fall at the National Book Awards.
Swirski, Peter. "It Can't Happen Here or Politics, Emotions, and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America." American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History. New York, Routledge, 2011. Stinson, John J. "'I Declare War': A New Street Game and New Grim Realities in Roth's The Plot Against America."