Nightmare Marriages, No Nobel Never Stopped Philip Roth
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Over the course of 51 years and 31 books, Philip Roth has awed, amused and ticked off many readers.
Claudia Roth Pierpont (no relation) presents a smart anatomy of his rich corpus in “Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books.” It mixes literary criticism and biographical details with inside information and comments drawn from Pierpont’s conversations with the novelist, who has retired from writing.