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David Kapesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possiblities.
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Classical in form, prestige, grave and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Philip Roth
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 263
- Publisher
- Penguin, Vintage, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verla
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Portuguese, English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780099389019
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Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) 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 Jewish and American identity. He first gained attention with the 1959 short story collection *Goodbye, Columbus,* which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Ten years later, he published the bestseller *Portnoy's Complaint.* Nathan Zuckerman, Roth's literary alter ego, narrates several of his books. A fictio
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