A Philip Roth reader.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Philip, 1933-2018

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories.

Genre:

Proofs (Printing) -- New York (State) -- 20th century.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)

Physical Description:

xxiii, 484 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Uncorrected page proof.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [1980]

Contents:

pt. 1. "Literature got me into this and literature is gonna have to get me out" Marriage à la mode (from My life as a man). Portrait of the artist (from My life as a man). Nathan Dedalus (from The ghost writer). Professor in Prague (from The professor of desire). "I always wanted you to admire my fasting" or, looking at Kafka (from Reading myself and others). pt. 2. "Only it ain't no joke!" Tricky comforts the nation (from our gang). Tricky's farewell speech (from reading myself and others). Visitors' line-up (from The great American novel). In the wilderness (from the great American novel). Whacking off (from Portnoy's complaint). pt. 3. "You must change your life" Novotny's pain (from Letting go). Martha's Thanksgiving (from Letting go). Cynthia's new life (from Letting go). Lucy's will (from When she was good). Chez Claire (from The professor of desire). Breast.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has letter from the publisher to Herman Gollob of the Literary Guild of America laid in.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 has photocopy of book review laid in.

OCLC:

932320437