My Life as a Man
by Roth, Philip
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0030126460
- ISBN 13
- 9780030126468
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About This Item
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 330pp; DJ clean & bright with slightly age-toned flaps, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. The author's eighth work of fiction, about Peter Tarnopol, an esteemed young American novelist obsessed with his disastrous efforts to achieve a responsible and virile manhood.
Synopsis
In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral . In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.
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- 017731
- Title
- My Life as a Man
- Author
- Roth, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0030126460
- ISBN 13
- 9780030126468
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- literature fiction masculinity virility manhood
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