Philip Roth: The Biography

by Blake Bailey

Book Overview

Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the postwar literary scene.

Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class Jewish milieu to achieve the heights of literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039324072X
• ISBN13: 9780393240726
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 912 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"