Philip Roth

The Humbling

Name: The Humbling
Brand: Vintage Publishing
Price: 14.99 EUR
Availability: InStock

150 Lesepunkte

Taschenbuch

eBook epub8,99 €

14,99 €inkl. Mwst.

Zustellung: Di, 08.04. - Mo, 14.04.

Versand in 3-4 Wochen

Versandkostenfrei

Bestellen & in Filiale abholen:

Roth's short novel (his 30th) now comes in paperback. Simon Axler, once the leading stage actor of his generation, is now in his 60s and has lost his magic, talent and confidence. With his wife and audience gone, how can he make a comeback? 'There is a clarity, almost a ruthlessness to his work, which makes the experience of reading any of his books a bracing, wild ride... He is the great postwar chronicler of America... He is the last of the giants' Erica Wagner, "Times"

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

02. September 2010

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

160

Autor/Autorin

Philip Roth

Verlag/Hersteller

Vintage Publishing

Produktart

kartoniert

Gewicht

121 g

Größe (L/B/H)

198/130/12 mm

ISBN

9780099535652

Entdecken Sie mehr

Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch

Belletristik: religiös, spirituell

Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen

Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch

Belletristik: religiös, spirituell

Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen

Portrait

Philip Roth

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, where he received a scholarship to complete his M. A. in English Literature.

In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus - a collection of stories, and a novella - for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel, Portnoy's Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of America's finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.

Roth's lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.

Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previously.

Pressestimmen

"Roth is no longer a novelist of comic exuberance, but of thoughtful meditation about life and increasingly death; he is our surviving laureate of lateness. His new work will not detain you long, but it will linger" -- Stephen Abell Telegraph "There is a clarity, almost a ruthlessness, to his work, which makes the experience of reading any of his books a bracing, wild ride... He is the great postwar chronicler of America... He is the last of the giants" -- Erica Wagner The Times "The great man of American literature still flashes with brilliance" -- Lucy Tobin Sunday Express "Roth...knows no limits, which is part of the fun of reading him" -- Jason Cowley New Stateman "While the other big beasts of his literary generation lost it one by one, Roth has enjoyed a flowering of late form barely seen since Yeats. And these little masterpieces are coming out once a year, if not faster" Literary Review

Bewertungen

0 Bewertungen

Es wurden noch keine Bewertungen abgegeben. Schreiben Sie die erste Bewertung zu "The Humbling" und helfen Sie damit anderen bei der Kaufentscheidung.