- Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, Authors, fiction
At the center of the novel are Philip and his lover, an Englishwoman compromised by a humiliating marriage, and the conversation that ensues before and after making love.
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- Author
- Philip Roth
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Cape, Touchstone, Hanser
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- German, Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780671732967
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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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