An ambitious, outrageous and often brutally honest novel.
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The
second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth,
Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a
neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing.
After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended
Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago,
where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English
Literature.
In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus - a collection of
stories, and a novella - for which he received the National Book
Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel,
Portnoy's Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial
success, firmly securing his reputation as one of America's finest
young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including
those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a
fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and
gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the
twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.
Roth's lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised
throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other
commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the
International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National
Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and
presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National
Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having
retired from writing six years previously.
Letting Go seethes with life
*New York Times*
A rich book, full of incident, wry and sad and even in its most
desolating scenes somehow amusing
*Harper's*
Letting Go is further proof of Mr. Roth's astonishing
talent...amusing and touching and shocking by turns
*New York Times*
A first novel of awesome maturity
*James Atlas*
One of the country's finest, most forcefully intelligent and
serious contemporary writers
*New York Times*
Letting Go seethes with life * New York Times *
A rich book, full of incident, wry and sad and even in its most
desolating scenes somehow amusing * Harper's *
Letting Go is further proof of Mr. Roth's astonishing
talent...amusing and touching and shocking by turns * New York
Times *
A first novel of awesome maturity * James Atlas *
One of the country's finest, most forcefully intelligent and
serious contemporary writers * New York Times *
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