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A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work
Deeply intimate encounters between the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral and the greatest writers and artists of the 20th century—from Primo Levi and Milan Kundera to Edna O’Brien and Philip Guston.
“Roth manages to tease from his subjects the convictions that fuel their work and the vulnerabilities that make them human.” —The New York Times Book Review
In Philip Roth’s intimate intellectual conversations with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer’s highly individualized art is informed by the wider conditions of life.
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