PHILIP ROTH

Appointed by Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is a n indelible portrait of an American master and of the post-war literary scene.Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-clas s Jewish milieu to achieve the heights of literary fame, how his career was nearly derailed by his catastrophic first marriage, and how he ch...[Read more]