{"title":"Library Of America Philip Roth Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eDive into the seminal works of Philip Roth, collected in the prestigious Library of America edition. Explore novels that dissect the American experience with unflinching honesty and sharp wit. Start your Roth journey here.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"philip-roth-the-american-trilogy-1997-2000-loa-220-book-philip-roth-9781598531039","title":"Philip Roth: The American Trilogy 1997-2000 (LOA #220)","description":"Gathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of The  Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected  works is the acclaimed American Trilogy, a major milestone in  contemporary American literature. In American Pastoral (1997),  Swede Levov is wrenched from the tranquility of his domestic life and  into the turbulent 1960s by his cherished daughter, an antiwar  terrorist. 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When She Was Good (1967) is the trenchant portrait of Lucy Nelson, a young midwestern woman whose perception of her own suffering turns her into a ferocious force, “enemy-ridden and unforgivingly defiant,” as Roth would later describe her. A small-town 1940s America of restrictive social pressures and foreclosed opportunities provides the novel’s background.  The publication of the hilarious Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) was a cultural event that turned Roth into a reluctant celebrity. The confession of a bewildered psychoanalytic patient thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality yet held back by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood, Portnoy unleashed Roth’s comic virtuosity and opened new avenues for American fiction.  In Our Gang (1971), described by Anthony Burgess as a “brilliant satire in the real Swift tradition,” Roth effects a savage takedown of the administration of Richard Nixon (who figures here as Trick E. Dixon). 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In the second Roth book, Deception (1990), a married American named Philip, living in London, and the married Englishwoman who is his mistress meet sporadically in a secret trysting place where the woman eloquently reveals herself to her lover as they talk before and after making love. In the third Roth book, Patrimony (1991), the author watches as his 86-year-old father, Herman Roth, battles a fatal brain tumor.  LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. 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