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Shop talk : a writer and his colleagues and their work / Philip Roth.
LIBRA - Special PN452 .R68 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roth, Philip, 1933-2018
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors--Interviews.
- Authors.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
- Summary:
- In Roth's intimate intellectual encounters with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics, and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer's highly individualized art is informed by the wider conditions of life.
- Contents:
- Conversation in Turin with Primo Levi
- Conversation in Jerusalem with Aharon Appelfeld
- Conversation in Prague with Ivan Klima
- Conversation in New York with Isaac Bashevis Singer about Bruno Schulz
- Conversation in London and Connecticut with Milan Kundera
- Conversation in London with Edna O'Brien
- An exchange with Mary McCarthy
- Pictures of Malamud
- Pictures by Guston
- Rereading Saul Bellow.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0618153144
- OCLC:
- 46683862
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