Roth, Philip The Great American Novel ISBN 13: 9780099889403

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Gill Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpre. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, 'The Babe Ruth of the Big House', who never hit a home-run sober. If you've never heard of them - or of the Rupert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American history - it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. In this ribald, richly imagined, and wickedly satirical novel, Philip Roth turns baseball's status as national passtime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picturesque heroism and perfidy, ebullient wordplay and a cast of characters that includes the House Un-American Activities Committee.

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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, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. 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 prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award `for a body of work . . . of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship' and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, given to a writer whose `scale of achievement over a sustained career . . . places him or her in the highest rank of American literature'. In 2011 Roth won the International Man Booker Prize. Roth is the only living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America.
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"Shameless comic extravagance'" * New York Times * "Roth invents baseball anew, as pure slapstick... An awesome performance" * New Republic * "Roth is one of a handful of living American novelists who can be called great" * Washington Post * "Roth is better than he's ever been before... The prose is electric" * Atlantic *

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  • PublisherVintage
  • Publication date2006
  • ISBN 10 0099889404
  • ISBN 13 9780099889403
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages416
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