Philip Roth: Nemeses (LOA #237): Everyman / Indignation / The

Philip Roth: Nemeses (LOA #237): Everyman / Indignation / The Humbling / Nemesis (Library of America Philip Roth Edition)
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What kind of choices fatally shape a life? How does the individual withstand the onslaught of circumstance? These are the dark questions that animate Nemeses, the quartet of thematically related short novels that are published here together for the first time in this final volume of The Library of Americaâ€™s definitive edition of Philip Rothâ€™s collected works. Everyman (2006) is the sparse and affecting story of one manâ€™s lifelong skirmish with mortality. Set against the backdrop of the Korean War, Indignation (2008) is the extraordinary narrative of a young man struggling against the conformity of McCarthy-era America and his fatherâ€™s overwhelming fear. In The Humbling (2009), aging actor Simon Axler embarks on a risky and aberrant affair in a desperate attempt to recoup his lost artistic gifts. And in Nemesis (2010), Roth offers an exacting portrait of the emotionsâ€”fear and anger, bewilderment and griefâ€”bred by a polio epidemic in Newark in the summer of 1944.
Philip Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by The Library of America. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, the PEN/Faulkner Award three times, the National Medal of Arts, and the Gold Medal in Fiction, the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2013-02-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598531992

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2013-02-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598531992

Philip Roth: Nemeses (LOA #237): Everyman / Indignation / The Humbling / Nemesis (Library of America Philip Roth Edition)

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