Book #20034

The Counterlife - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Philip Roth
Book #20034 The Counterlife - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Philip Roth.

Binding: Full-Leather
Book Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1986.

A special Limited edition and true US first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition. This copy is in unread Fine condition and is SIGNED by author and Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth.

Nathan Zuckerman's account of his younger brother Henry and the story about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate.

This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather with raised bands and features gilded sewn-in pages with a satin marker. Simply superb quality; Franklin Library at its best; 8vo; [xviii], 324, [4] pages; Signed by Author.

Price: $90.00

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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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