Zuckerman Unbound follows fictional author Nathan Zuckerman in the year 1969. Zuckerman has recently achieved widespread fame due to the success of his latest novel, “Carnovsky.” Zuckerman finds that fame creates many challenges in his life. He has very little privacy, and certain aspects of his work and notoriety cause considerable tension between himself and his family. The novel explores themes of fame, family, fiction, alienation, and mortality.
In 1974, Philip Roth wrote a satirical novel about baseball which he entitled The Great American Novel. The title refers to the parodies of a number of classic American novels in the book, but it al...
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One of the dominant voices of American-Jewish literature during the past two decades, Philip Roth has had an ambivalent, even troubled, response to the Jewishness of his congenial material. He was bor...
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[This entry was updated by S. Lillian Kremer (Kansas State University) from her entry in DLB 173: American Novelists Since World War II, Fifth Series, pp. 202-234.]A major writer of twentieth-century ...
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The American author Philip Roth (born 1933) used his Jewish upbringing and his college days for the basis of many of his novels and other works.Roth used his experiences in growing up in the Weequahic...
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Biography EssayIn 1973, Philip Roth wrote a satirical novel about baseball which he entitled The Great American Novel. The title refers to the parodies of a number of classic American novels in the ...
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Philip (Milton) Roth
Philip Roth