Book #20040

Novels And Other Narratives 1986-1991 [the Counterlife, The Facts: The Novelist's Autobiography, Deception, Patrimony: A True Story] - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Philip Roth
Book #20040 Novels And Other Narratives 1986-1991 [the Counterlife, The Facts: The Novelist's Autobiography, Deception, Patrimony: A True Story] - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Philip Roth.
Novels And Other Narratives 1986-1991 [the Counterlife, The Facts: The Novelist's Autobiography, Deception, Patrimony: A True Story] - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: As New in As New dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: The Library of America, 2008.
ISBN: 1598530305

A most attractive first edition/first printing bound in emerald green cloth with gilt and black lettering and design on spine. In unread As New condition in alike dustjacket with cloth bookmark. SIGNED by Philip Roth directly on the title page.

With this fifth volume, The Library of America continues the definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works. The Counterlife is one of Roth's most radical novels narrated by Roth's alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. The Facts is autobiographical, presenting Roth's own inner battles, especially as an author. Deception tackles the world of adultery with unrivaled directness; and Patrimony takes us on Roth's journey with his own father as he dies from a brain tumor; Vol. 5; 8vo; Signed by Author.

Price: $250.00

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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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