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The Prague Orgy

The Prague Orgy( )
Author: Roth, Philip
Series title:Vintage International Ser.
ISBN:978-0-679-74903-5
Publication Date:Jan 1996
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Vintage
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $14.00
Book Description:

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral--"a lithe comic masterpiece" (Newsweek) consisting of notebook entries from one of his best-loved characters, Nathan Zuckerman. In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by...
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Book Details
Pages:96
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Fiction / General
Fiction / Jewish
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.2 x 7.99 x 0.23 Inches
Book Weight:0.288 Pounds
Author Biography
Roth, Philip (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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