Philip Roth: Novels & Other Narratives 1986-1991, The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography Deception, Patrimony: A True Story( Series - Library Of America )

This fourth volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Roth's collected works presents four novels that recount the story of budding American writer Nathan Zuckerman. Includes "The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson," and "The Prague Orgy."

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 aour foremost novelist since Faulkner.a Rothas comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assault on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time. By special arrangement with the author, The Library of America continues the definitive edition of Rothas collected works.
This fifth volume of The Library of Americaas definitive edition of Philip Rothas collected works presents four books that exemplify the description of Roth, proposed by British novelist Anthony Burgess, as a writer awho never steps twice into the same river.a "The Counterlife" (1986) is a novel told from conflicting perspectives about people enacting drastic dreams of renewal and escape. "The Facts" (1988)athe first of the aRoth Booksaais a novelistas autobiography in which the author presents his own battles defictionalized and unadorned. In the second Roth book, "Deception" (1990), a married American named Philip, living in London, and the married Englishwoman who is his mistress meet sporadically in a secret trysting place where the woman eloquently reveals herself to her lover as they talk before and after making love. In the third Roth book, "Patrimony" (1991), the author watches as his 86-year-old father, Herman Roth, battles a fatal brain tumor.