Philip Roth at 80 : a celebration : remarks delivered on the occasion of Philip Roth's 80th birthday : March 19th, 2013 Newark Museum Newark, N.J (edition 2014)

by Jonathan Lethem (Contributor), Hermione Lee (Contributor.), Alain Finkielkraut (Contributor.), Claudia Roth Pierpont (Contributor.), Edna O'Brien (Contributor.) — 1 more, Philip Roth (Contributor.)

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Biography & Autobiography. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. On March 19, 2013, a distinguished group of writers and critics gathered at the Newark Museum�??s Billy Johnson Auditorium in Newark, New Jersey, to celebrate the extraordinary career and lasting literary legacy of Philip Roth on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This keepsake volume gathers remarks from the evening�??s speakers, a fitting tribute to the only living novelist whose work is collected in the Library of America series. Here you�??ll find Jonathan Lethem, hilariously recounting his first consciousness-raising encounter with Roth�??s work through the Kafkaesque novel The Breast; Hermione Lee, tracing the Shakespearian themes in Roth�??s books, from Portnoy�??s Complaint to The Humbling; Alain Finkielkraut, offering a deep reading of Roth�??s final novel, Nemesis; Claudia Roth Pierpont, assessing Roth�??s portrayal of women in such books as Sabbath�??s Theater and The Human Stain; Edna O�??Brien, recalling her long friendship with Roth; and the author himself, offering a quintes… (more)

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Title:	Philip Roth at 80 : a celebration : remarks delivered on the occasion of Philip Roth's 80th birthday : March 19th, 2013 Newark Museum Newark, N.J
Authors:	Jonathan Lethem
Other authors:	Hermione Lee (Contributor.), Alain Finkielkraut (Contributor.), Claudia Roth Pierpont (Contributor.), Edna O'Brien (Contributor.), Philip Roth (Contributor.)
Info:	New York : The Library of America, 2014
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This is a collection of remarks delivered at a birthday tribute for Philip Roth in 2013. It was a bit of lagniappe through my Library of America subscription, and I read it to see what admirers from the world of literature and philosophy had to say about Roth's work. I came away with a grudging acceptance of the fact that I probably am missing something, that Roth's body of work is more significant than its individual parts might suggest...but not with any desire to read further of Zuckerman or Sabbath. Roth's own comments at the event, which concludes this slim volume, annoyed me as much as anything else of his I've read. He just isn't talking to me. So, as my beautiful 18-month-old grandniece is fond of saying, I am, as far as Roth is concerned, emphatically "Done!". I did learn that he loves Faulkner. Well, good.
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Biography & Autobiography. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. On March 19, 2013, a distinguished group of writers and critics gathered at the Newark Museum�??s Billy Johnson Auditorium in Newark, New Jersey, to celebrate the extraordinary career and lasting literary legacy of Philip Roth on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This keepsake volume gathers remarks from the evening�??s speakers, a fitting tribute to the only living novelist whose work is collected in the Library of America series. Here you�??ll find Jonathan Lethem, hilariously recounting his first consciousness-raising encounter with Roth�??s work through the Kafkaesque novel The Breast; Hermione Lee, tracing the Shakespearian themes in Roth�??s books, from Portnoy�??s Complaint to The Humbling; Alain Finkielkraut, offering a deep reading of Roth�??s final novel, Nemesis; Claudia Roth Pierpont, assessing Roth�??s portrayal of women in such books as Sabbath�??s Theater and The Human Stain; Edna O�??Brien, recalling her long friendship with Roth; and the author himself, offering a quintes

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