Book #18615

The Humbling - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Philip Roth
Book #18615 The Humbling - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Philip Roth.
The Humbling - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.
ISBN: 0547239696

First edition, first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dust jacket, SIGNED by author Philip Roth directly on the title page. Without dreaded bookstore stamp.

Philip Roth's 30th book is the third in a quartet. Like the two preceding short novels, "Everyman," and "Indignation," "The Humbling" is deeply melancholy. The tale focuses on Simon Axler, renowned actor who has lost his gifts. His wife leaves him, he is briefly institutionalized, and after he is released, he falls into a spiritless routine when he meets a younger woman and is recharged, even hopeful; 8vo; Signed by Author.

Price: $160.00

Author Bio

Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, March 19, 1933. He began publishing short stories in 1956. His first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959) won the National Book Award, and since then he has published more than twenty-two books. In the 1990s, Roth won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony (1991), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock (1993), and the National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater (1995). American Pastoral (1997) and I Married a Communist (1998), the first two volumes of the American's trilogy that culminates in The Human Stain received the Pulitzer Prize and many others.

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