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Other Men's Daughters

Other Men's Daughters( )
Author: Stern, Richard
Introduction by: Roth, Philip
Afterword by: Doniger, Wendy
ISBN:978-1-68137-151-1
Publication Date:Aug 2017
Publisher:New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Imprint:NYRB Classics
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $15.95
Book Description:

For almost six years the Merriwethers of Cambridge have been living a lie. They still share the old house on Acorn Street- wooden, gabled, bellied with bay windows. Nights they can be found gathered in the parlor, reading in their favorite roosts. The children, intelligent, aware; Sarah, bright agreeable; Robert Merriwether, "the helpless man of thought." One summer changes the direction of their lives. Sarah has taken the children to Maine, but for the first time in years Merriwether...
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Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / City Life
Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.187 x 7.878 x 0.585 Inches
Book Weight:0.62 Pounds
Author Biography
Stern, Richard (Author)
Philip Milton Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933. He attended Rutgers University for one year before transferring to Bucknell University where he completed a B.A. in English with highest honors in 1954. He received an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1955.

His first book, Goodbye, Columbus, received the National Book Award in 1960. His other books include Letting Go, When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, My Life as a Man, The Ghostwriter, Zuckerman Unbound, I Married a Communist, The Plot Against America, The Facts, The Anatomy Lesson, Exit Ghost, Deception, Nemesis, Everyman, Indignation, and The Humbling. He won the National Book Critic Circle Awards in 1987 for his novel The Counterlife and in 1992 for his memoir Patrimony: A True Story. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1993 for Operation Shylock: A Confession and in 2001 for The Human Stain, the National Book Award in 1995 for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for American Pastoral. He stopped writing in 2010. He died from congestive heart failure on May 22, 2018 at the age of 85.

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