Philip Roth: Stung by Life: Jewish Lives
Autor Steven J. Zippersteinen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 oct 2025
In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Philip Roth (1933–2018), one of America’s most celebrated writers. Born in Newark, New Jersey—where his short stories and books were often set—Roth wrote with ambition and awareness of what was required to produce great literature. No writer was more dedicated to his craft, even as he was rubbing shoulders with the Kennedys and engaging in a spate of famous and infamous romances. And yet, as much as Roth wrote about sex and self, he viewed himself as socially withdrawn, living much like an “unchaste monk” (his words).
Zipperstein explores the unprecedented range of Roth’s work—from “Goodbye, Columbus” and Portnoy’s Complaint to the Pulitzer Prize–winning American Pastoral and The Plot Against America. Drawing on extensive archival materials and over one hundred interviews, including conversations with Roth about his life and work, Zipperstein provides an intimate and insightful look at one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers, placing his work in the context of his obsessions, as well as American Jewishness, freedom, and sexuality.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300251555
ISBN-10: 0300251556
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 9 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 146 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Seria Jewish Lives
ISBN-10: 0300251556
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 9 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 146 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Seria Jewish Lives
Recenzii
“Mr. Zipperstein’s volume [is] composed with the tact of a historian who has read the archives and the novels with equal care, . . . rescuing Roth from the noise and restoring him to the exuberant sentences he spent his life turning around.”—Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal
“A moving portrait of Roth in all his complexity.”—Emily Gould, New York Magazine
“Well-modulated and immensely erudite. . . . This biography will introduce Roth to new readers as one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century and one of the most influential voices in shaping American Jewish identity.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Slim and eloquent . . . consistently insightful. . . . Dishes head-turning revelations from archives and informants.”—David Mikics, Jewish Review of Books
“An admiring, thorough, and swift account of an immensely single-minded writer’s unabating struggles with ambition, romance, and the politics of his time, [with] some fascinating scoops‚ major interviews and materials to which Zipperstein alone had access.”—Julius Taranto, The Forward
“A compelling, vividly drawn account of a literary giant. . . . Zipperstein’s portrayal of his subject is fastidious, respectful but not obsequious, and occasionally sharp about Roth’s shortcomings and failures.”—Megan Peck Shub, Haaretz
“Excellent new biography. . . . I grabbed it at my favorite Manhattan bookshop before returning to Jerusalem last week and devoured it over Shabbat, even skipping synagogue and an invitation to a meal so I could tear through its nearly 300 delicious pages.”—Stephen Daniel Arnoff, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
“Delivers plenty of scoops and gossip. Its focus, though, is how Roth’s life fed his art. . . . Zipperstein makes the case that this dinosaur might have been the last literary giant.”—New York Sun
“An insightful, full-throttled portrait of a man who alienated as many readers and critics as he enthralled.”–J.: Jewish News of Northern California
“This is one of the fairest and finest literary biographies I have read, with the emphasis on literary. Zipperstein does Philip Roth and his life’s work more than justice. He has produced a book that is a work of literature itself. Not every writer is what Roth called (and was called) ‘a writer’s writer.’ And not every scribe who undertakes to write a major life is truly a writer’s biographer. Zipperstein is one.”—Judith Thurman, author of Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
“Steven Zipperstein’s appreciation of Philip Roth is literary biography at its best. Acute and original judgments of Roth’s written worlds come embraided with revelatory portrayals of the worlds Roth inhabited, scrutinized, and provoked, and of Roth himself, solemn and hilarious, voraciously curious, a boundless sensual spirit riven by his craft.”—Sean Wilentz, author of Bob Dylan in America
“A moving portrait of Roth in all his complexity.”—Emily Gould, New York Magazine
“Well-modulated and immensely erudite. . . . This biography will introduce Roth to new readers as one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century and one of the most influential voices in shaping American Jewish identity.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Slim and eloquent . . . consistently insightful. . . . Dishes head-turning revelations from archives and informants.”—David Mikics, Jewish Review of Books
“An admiring, thorough, and swift account of an immensely single-minded writer’s unabating struggles with ambition, romance, and the politics of his time, [with] some fascinating scoops‚ major interviews and materials to which Zipperstein alone had access.”—Julius Taranto, The Forward
“A compelling, vividly drawn account of a literary giant. . . . Zipperstein’s portrayal of his subject is fastidious, respectful but not obsequious, and occasionally sharp about Roth’s shortcomings and failures.”—Megan Peck Shub, Haaretz
“Excellent new biography. . . . I grabbed it at my favorite Manhattan bookshop before returning to Jerusalem last week and devoured it over Shabbat, even skipping synagogue and an invitation to a meal so I could tear through its nearly 300 delicious pages.”—Stephen Daniel Arnoff, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
“Delivers plenty of scoops and gossip. Its focus, though, is how Roth’s life fed his art. . . . Zipperstein makes the case that this dinosaur might have been the last literary giant.”—New York Sun
“An insightful, full-throttled portrait of a man who alienated as many readers and critics as he enthralled.”–J.: Jewish News of Northern California
“This is one of the fairest and finest literary biographies I have read, with the emphasis on literary. Zipperstein does Philip Roth and his life’s work more than justice. He has produced a book that is a work of literature itself. Not every writer is what Roth called (and was called) ‘a writer’s writer.’ And not every scribe who undertakes to write a major life is truly a writer’s biographer. Zipperstein is one.”—Judith Thurman, author of Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
“Steven Zipperstein’s appreciation of Philip Roth is literary biography at its best. Acute and original judgments of Roth’s written worlds come embraided with revelatory portrayals of the worlds Roth inhabited, scrutinized, and provoked, and of Roth himself, solemn and hilarious, voraciously curious, a boundless sensual spirit riven by his craft.”—Sean Wilentz, author of Bob Dylan in America
Notă biografică
Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing and Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History. He lives in Berkeley, CA.