This fourth volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works presents four works that demonstrate Roth's "always ebullient invention and artful prose at their most polished and concentrated" (The New Yorker). The Ghost Writer (1979) recounts the story of a budding American writer, Nathan Zuckerman, who meets and falls in love with Anne Frank in New England-or so he imagines.
In Zuckerman Unbound (1981), Zuckerman is now the bewildered, bestselling author of Carnovsky, a comic-erotic sensation that has rocketed him to celebrity. In the hilarious The Anatomy Lesson (1984), Zuckerman decides to give it all up and become a doctor-and a pornographer. The Prague Orgy (1985), the epilogue to Zuckerman Bound, completes Zuckerman's education in the unforeseen consequences of art : he travels to Prague and discovers among the oppressed writers there an antic artistic heroism of a kind unknown in the West.
As an added feature, this volume publishes for the first time Roth's unproduced television screenplay for The Prague Orgy, featuring new characters and scenes that do not appear in the novella. The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts.
This fourth volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works presents four works that demonstrate Roth's "always ebullient invention and artful prose at their most polished and concentrated" (The New Yorker). The Ghost Writer (1979) recounts the story of a budding American writer, Nathan Zuckerman, who meets and falls in love with Anne Frank in New England-or so he imagines.
In Zuckerman Unbound (1981), Zuckerman is now the bewildered, bestselling author of Carnovsky, a comic-erotic sensation that has rocketed him to celebrity. In the hilarious The Anatomy Lesson (1984), Zuckerman decides to give it all up and become a doctor-and a pornographer. The Prague Orgy (1985), the epilogue to Zuckerman Bound, completes Zuckerman's education in the unforeseen consequences of art : he travels to Prague and discovers among the oppressed writers there an antic artistic heroism of a kind unknown in the West.
As an added feature, this volume publishes for the first time Roth's unproduced television screenplay for The Prague Orgy, featuring new characters and scenes that do not appear in the novella. The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts.
