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Add World of Books to your favourites and receive email newsletters about special promotions! General Interest Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (LOA #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
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Category: Books ISBN: 1931082960 Title: Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (LOA #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire The Fast Free Shipping Author: Philip Roth Publisher: The Library of America Year Published: 2006 Number of Pages: 906 Book Binding: Hardback Prizes: N/A Book Condition: GOOD SKU: CIN1931082960G Item description This third volume of The Library of America\'s definitive edition of Philip Roth\'s collected works presents three markedly different novels that together trace a crucial period in the bold evolution of one of America\'s indispensable novelists.
InThe Great American Novel(1973), a hilarious, bizarre, strangely poignant tall tale of American pieties and American lunacy, Roth lifts the lid on the suppressed history of the homeless Ruppert Mundys of baseball\'s despised and vanquished third major league, turning the national pastime into unfettered picaresque farce. The cast of improbable characters includes: Gil Gamesh, the pitcher who actually tried to kill the umpire; John Baal, the ex-con first baseman, \"The Babe Ruth of the Big House,\" who never hit a home run sober; and the House Un-American Activities Committee.
My Life as a Man(1974) is Roth\'s most blistering novel, the savage, sometimes lurid account of the all-out battle waged between the young writer Peter Tarnopol and the wife who is his nemesis, his demon, and his muse. This is the treacherous world of Strindberg nearly a century later: the story of a fierce marital tragedy of obsession and blindness and desperate need.
The volume closes withThe Professor of Desire(1977), which charts the second sexual metamorphosis of David Kepesh, protagonist ofThe Breast. Roth follows Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, into a vast wilderness of erotic possibility.The Professor of Desireis the troublingly affecting novel about the dilemmas of desire that prompted Milan Kundera to proclaim Roth \"a great historian of modern eroticism.\"
LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation\'s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America\'s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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