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PHILIP ROTH - BLAKE BAILEY GEBUNDEN

'Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly engrossing' EVENING
STANDARD'Compulsively readable... Beautifully written... Definitive' OBSERVER Appointed by
Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence  Blake Bailey spent years poring over
Roth's personal archive  interviewing his friends  lovers  and colleagues  and engaging Roth
himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an
American master and of the post-war literary scene. Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a
lower-middle-class Jewish milieu to achieve the heights of literary fame  how his career was
nearly derailed by his catastrophic first marriage  and how he championed the work of dissident
novelists behind the Iron Curtain. Bailey examines Roth's rivalrous friendships with Saul
Bellow  John Updike and William Styron  and reveals the truths of his florid love life 
culminating in his almost-twenty-year relationship with actress Claire Bloom  who pilloried
Roth in her 1996 memoir  Leaving a Doll's House. Tracing Roth's path from realism to farce to
metafiction to the tragic masterpieces of the American Trilogy  Bailey explores Roth's
engagement with nearly every aspect of post-war American culture.*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE
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