Philip Roth: Novels 2001-2007 (LOA #236): The Dying Animal / The Plot Against America / Exit Ghost

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Philip Roth Ross Miller

Philip Roth

Novels 2001-2007 (LOA #236): The Dying Animal / The Plot Against America / Exit Ghost

Philip Roth, Ross Miller

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The Library of America
07 February 2013

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Religious & spiritual fiction

Series: Library of America Philip Roth Edition

The definitive Philip Roth edition continues with three novels written in his late sixties and early seventies. The Dying Animal (2001) marks the final return of David Kepesh from The Breast (1972) and The Professor of Desire (1977). Now an eminent cultural critic in his sixties, Kepesh expertly seduces a beautiful twenty-four-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles only to find himself torn by sexual jealousy and the anguish of loss. As The Plot Against America (2004) begins, aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh has defeated Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, and fear invades every Jewish household in America. Lindbergh has publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, and now in office, he negotiates a cordial ""understanding"" with Adolf Hitler. What follows for Jews during the Lindbergh presidency-most particularly in the Newark household of the boy Philip Roth-is the subject of an extraordinary work of historical imagination. With Exit Ghost (2007) Roth rings down the curtain on perhaps his greatest literary creation. Nathan Zuckerman returns to a radically changed New York, the city he left eleven years before, where a rash decision draws him into a vivid drama rife with implications for his future, and his past.

Philip Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by The Library of America. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, the PEN/Faulkner Award three times, the National Medal of Arts, and the Gold Medal in Fiction, the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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.

By: Philip Roth
Edited by: Ross Miller
Imprint: The Library of America
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 8
Dimensions: Height: 207mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 595g
ISBN: 9781598531985
ISBN 10: 1598531980
Series: Library of America Philip Roth Edition
Pages: 740
Publication Date: 07 February 2013
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

ROSS MILLER,editor, is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut and has taught at Yale, Wesleyan, and Trinity College. He is the author of American Apocalypse- The Great Fire and the Myth of Chicago and Here's the Deal- The Buying and Selling of a Great American City.