Our Gang by Philip Roth
Presents an acerbic response to the phenomenon of Richard M Nixon. In the character of Trick E Dixon, the author portrays an American president who outdoes the severest cynic; a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn't have a problem with killing unarmed women and children.Very funny - I laughed out loud sixteen times and giggle internally a statistically unverifiable amountIn short, a masterpiece... I cant think of anything like it * New York Times *
A bitter yet hilarious lampoon...a remarkable display of satiric vehemence. An extremely (in every sense) funny, nail-bitingly anxious work * Financial Times *
When Philip Roth sends Richard Nixon to hell in Our Gang, there is delight in recognising that if there is a hell, Nixon will probably act there just as Roth describes him * Washington Post *
Perhaps the funniest and most complex exercise in sustained political satire since Animal Farm * Newsweek *
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 | 9780099389118 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099389118 |
| Title | Our Gang |
| Author | Philip Roth |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1994-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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