Roth and Celebrity by Aimee L. Pozorski,Derek Royal,James Bloom,Ira Nadel,Miriam

By Aimee L. Pozorski,Derek Royal,James Bloom,Ira Nadel,Miriam Jaffe Foger,Debra Shostak,Matthew Shipe,Maggie McKinley,Brett Ashley Kaplan,Nigel Rodenhurst,Mark Shechner

Roth and Celebrity consists of 10 unique essays that ponder the vexed and ambivalent courting among Philip Roth and his personal megastar as printed either in own interviews in addition to within the fiction that spans his publishing background. With its simultaneous curiosity in American pop culture and the paintings of an important dwelling American author to-date, the gathering will carry extensive entice complicated readers in American stories, literary scholarship, and picture.

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