Philip Roth
Born
in Newark, New Jersey, The United States
March 19, 1933
Died
May 22, 2018
Website
Genre
Influences
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American Pastoral
79 editions
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published
1997
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Portnoy’s Complaint
245 editions
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published
1969
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The Plot Against America
13 editions
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published
2004
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The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
159 editions
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published
2000
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Goodbye, Columbus
207 editions
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published
1959
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Everyman
131 editions
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published
2006
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Indignation
141 editions
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published
2008
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Nemesis
113 editions
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published
2010
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The Ghost Writer
104 editions
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published
1979
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The Dying Animal
113 editions
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published
2001
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“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
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“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open. ”
― The Dying Animal
― The Dying Animal
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes instead of tearing up the turf with your caterpillar treads, take them on with an open mind, as equals, man to man, as we used to say, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You might as well have the brain of a tank. You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion. ... The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.”
― American Pastoral
― American Pastoral
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