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For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities, leading the critic Harold Bloom to proclaim Roth "our foremost novelist since Faulkner." Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable... read more
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IT WAS the last daylight hour of a December afternoon more than twenty years ago—I was twenty-three, writing and publishing my first short stories, and like many a Bildungsro-man hero before me, already contemplating my own massive Bildungsroman—when I arrived at his hideaway to meet the great man.
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- Philip Roth (Author)
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