Why Phillip Roth is a Great Jewish and a Great American Novelist
A new biography captures the whole man: his kindnesses, his pettiness and his prickeries
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There will undoubtedly be eye-rolling in some quarters over Blake Bailey’s 800-page biography of Philip Roth, that self-hating Jew/misogynist/self-absorbed relic of an era of history that America has (perhaps) outgrown.
And yet, Philip Roth: The Biography – not a biography, the biography – is a book as sensibly, sensitively, and insightfully ...
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