The Dying Animal by Philip Roth
'This is a vicious, furious book, unapologetically not of this age - it is also horribly funny and unflinchingly honest' New Statesman David Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is an eminent cultural critic on NPR radio and a formidable lecturer at a New York college.A small disturbing masterpiece * New York Review of Books *
A fierce, compacted, sometimes brutal meditation on the passing of time and the meaning of freedom * Daily Telegraph *
Written with Roth's familiar elegance and composure * Sunday Times *
Intense and brilliant.. Dazzling and compelling * Sunday Herald *
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize. Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099422693 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099422697 |
| Title | The Dying Animal |
| Author | Philip Roth |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2002-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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