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In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral.In1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House, and in 2002 received 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, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2005, Philip Roth will become the third living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. The last ofthe eight volumes is scheduled for publication in 2013.
Magnificent. Roth is writing the best books of his life. He captures better than anyone the collision of public and private, the intrusion of history into the skin, the pores of every individual alive Guardian Subtle, persuasive and unsettling. A brilliantly troubling and heartening novel Sunday Times Dazzling. The most exciting novelist writing today Independent on Sunday Untouchable...he is bequeathing us a body of work that adds up to themost accomplished dissection of American political, social and personal mores Observer The novel is full of his usual furious cackling; tragedy tipping into comedy and comedy into tragedy within the space of a few sentences. The prose is beautiful Mail on Sunday
