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The Dying Animal.
por Roth, Philip
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. First edition of Roth's third book in a series portraying the life of the fictional professor David Kapesh, preceded by The Breast (1971) and The Professor of Desire (1977). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you?re not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New York college?as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete?s critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated. "No one can come close to Roth’s comic genius and breadth of moral imperative" (The Boston Globe). Basis for the film Elegy, starring Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, and Dennis Hopper, and co-stars Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard in supporting roles.
Sinopse
In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral . In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.
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- Livreiro
- Raptis Rare Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 138135
- Título
- The Dying Animal.
- Autor
- Roth, Philip
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Local de publicação
- Boston
- Data de publicação
- 2001
- Palavras-chave
- Ben Kingsley, Dying Animal First Edition, Elegy Movie, Philip Roth First Edition
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Raptis Rare Books
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Palm Beach, Florida
Sobre Raptis Rare Books
Founded by Matthew and Adrienne Raptis, Raptis Rare Books is an antiquarian book firm that specializes in literature, children's books, economics, photo books, signed and inscribed books, and landmark books in all fields. Our business model is simple: we strive to handle books that are in exceptional condition and to provide exceptional customer service.
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