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This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer who constantly reinvents himself in surprising ways.
Series editors' foreword ixAcknowledgements xiIntroduction 1The trials of Nathan Zuckerman, or Jewry as jury: judging Jews in Zuckerman Bound 21The 'credible incredible and the incredible credible': generic experimentation in My Life as a Man, The Counterlife, The Facts, Deception and Operation Shylock 46Old men behaving badly: morality, mortality and masculinity in Sabbath's Theater 122History and the anti-pastoral: Utopian dreams and rituals of purification in the 'American Trilogy' 148Fantasies of flight and flights of fancy: rewriting history and retreating from trauma in The Plot Against America 186Afterword 218Works cited 225Index 237
