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	MSN Encarta - Philip Roth
		Philip Roth, born in 1933, American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist, whose works reflect the problems of assimilation and identity among American Jews.
		Roth continued to reflect on U.S. politics and history in The Plot Against America (2004), which takes place in an imagined America where aviation hero Charles Lindbergh runs as Republican candidate for president in 1940 on a peace-with-Hitler platform and defeats Franklin D. Roosevelt.
		Roth’s first marriage to Margaret Martinson, in 1959, ended with her death in 1968, although the two had separated some years earlier.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553683/Roth_Philip.html (832 words)

	CNN/TIME - America's Best
		What Philip Roth did, as he began anticipating the popularly euphemistic Golden Years, was to gun his engine and rev out in rapid succession three of the strongest, most vibrant novels of his long career.
		Roth has tirelessly insisted on the distinction between the raw material of life and the transforming power of fiction, and his energy shows no signs of flagging.
		Roth is a serious writer who has never been somber in print; his narrative voice is unique, and so is the way he consistently wrings slapstick comedy out of the tics and obsessions of his characters.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/americasbest/pro.proth.html (911 words)

	Floridian: Philip Roth unbound
		Philip Roth, arguably America's greatest living novelist, is at once an intensely self-revealing writer and one of the most fiercely private.
		Roth's novels are studded with land mines for the unwary, for those who try to draw pat, one-to-one correspondences between the man's life and his work.
		Philip was working on American Pastoral at the time, so everything he was experiencing could be worked in, or he would allow it to claim his attention.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/07/04/Floridian/Philip_Roth_unbound.shtml (1866 words)

	The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
		Philip's father, an insurance agent, is outraged and deeply concerned by the rise of Lindbergh, but continues to have some faith in the democratic institutions that made America great.
		Roth is also particularly good at capturing the child's confusion and impotence -- and his reactions, as when he tries to run away or escape, or how he interprets the actions of his elders.
		Roth has the excuse of the young child's perspective to explain some of the superficiality of the book -- fls, for example, practically don't figure at all in the book and the racism (and laws) against that group are essentially completely ignored, the book generally limited to a specifically Jewish slice of life.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/rothp/plotaa.htm (2928 words)

	Roth's Counterlife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roth appears to be showing how this character of his invention with his newly acquired beard is as much a part of Roth's fugitive identity as is the elusive figure he tries to establish in the main portion of the book.
		Roth anticipates this accusation by introducing Maria, Zuckerman's fictional wife, whose different reactions to reading Roth's manuscript are recounted by Zuckerman in the final portion of his letter.
		Roth, the recorder of the facts, first employs a fictional persona to strip them of their factuality and then strips his fictional persona of his fictional reality.
	www.csulb.edu /~bhfinney/Roth.html (6311 words)

	"The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth \| Salon.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roth's feelings of persecution have been the engine of much of his fiction, and for his readers it's always a complicated balancing act: Is the thrill of being swept up in his stormy wrath worth the suspension of common sense that's often required?
		Sexual persecution is the specter that really winds Roth's watch, but in an era of gay marriage and openly polyamorous households, it's hard to find a situation in which a heterosexual male of conventional proclivities can feel truly ostracized as a result of his sexuality.
		As a result, Roth has had to contrive some pretty preposterous scenarios, populated by an assortment of straw-man oppressors, in order to maneuver his main characters into a position in which they can be unjustly tormented.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2004/09/29/roth/index_np.html (643 words)

	The Valve - A Literary Organ \| Harmless History
		Roth substantiates his fear of demagoguery by contrasting presidential leadership to paternal guidance (another classic feature of the literature of presidentialism, by the way).
		But, although Roth gives some fine moments to Bess Roth, it’s Herman Roth who is the clear hero of the novel, his ordinary care for his family rising in the moment of crisis to supreme grandeur.
		But it’s hard to avoid the sense that Roth is just fascinated by performance and invention in general (just as, I think, he sometimes suggests that the sense of homelessness experienced by the victims of anti-semitism is something we all, could we tolerate the awareness, would share).
	www.thevalve.org /go/valve/article/harmless_history (2639 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Roth, Phillip
		He is fond of characters named Philip Roth, and often uses biographical events, filtered through his alter-ego narrator Nathan Zuckerman (In Deception, both Roth and his then wife appear by name and profession, she "remarkably uninteresting").
		Philip Roth's The Plot Against America imagines Jewish family life in America in the Forties under President Charles Lindbergh, the aviation hero and Nazi sympathiser.
		Philip Roth's altered image of America's past in The Plot Against America is a stroke of genius, says Blake Morrison.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-121,00.html (526 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Profile: Philip Roth
		Roth's monkish routine is at odds with what he once called his "reputation as a crazed penis" bestowed on him by Portnoy's Complaint, his great panegyric to the comedy of sex.
		Roth has never been much interested in aesthetic theories and experiment and when he talks about getting a story right he does so, like any craftsman, with a practical understanding of the materials he uses and the techniques needed to get the job done.
		Roth's regular visits to Prague continued until 1977, when he was denied an entry visa, and they seemed to bring about a change in his focus as a writer.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1300982,00.html (3608 words)

	Amazon.com: The Plot Against America: A Novel: Books: Philip Roth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roth's examination of the lives of big events through the eyes of a `little' man creates a subcontext that is rife with meaning for anyone who has experienced the joys and despairs of a family in crisis.
		Roth's Plot is as much, if not more, the story of the reaction of one family to this alternate history as the story of a nation at war with itself.
		Roth is not the most subtle of writers, and while I understand this I believe that what "happens" in and with this novel, while "plausible" (etc.), is simply "too much": it's strident, overemphatic, besotted with its own cleaverness and sense of truth, justice and the essential beauty of "American Way" and restored American destiny.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618509283?v=glance (2870 words)

	Online NewsHour: Philip Roth Discusses Latest Novel The Plot Against America -- October 27, 2004
		Roth himself grew up in Newark, and in this novel, he's carefully depicted his own family in the 1940s: Father; mother; brother; and himself as a young boy.
		PHILIP ROTH: I think the subject of the book that interested me was, to put what I said earlier another way, how much pressure can you bring to bear on this family, and what will happen when you bring maximum pressure to bear on them?
		PHILIP ROTH: Yeah, he says, "a new life began for me. I'd watched my father fall apart, and I would never return to the same childhood.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec04/philiproth_10-27.html (1194 words)

	Amazon.com: The Human Stain : A Novel (Vintage International): Books: Philip Roth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Then, in a dazzling coup, Roth turns all expectations on their heads, and begins to show Silk in a new and astounding light, as someone who has lived a huge lie all his life, making the fuss over his alleged racism even more surreal.
		Roth is working here at the peak of his imaginative skills, creating many scenes at once sharply observed and moving: Faunia's affinity for the self-contained remoteness of crows, Farley's profane longing for a cessation to the tumult in his head, Zuckerman delightedly dancing with Silk to the big band tunes of their youth.
		Philip Roth is a fearless writer and here takes on the story of Classics professor Coleman Silk, a fl man who "passes," living his adult life as a white.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375726349?v=glance (2306 words)

	Featured Author: Philip Roth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roth, talking about his book "The Prague Orgy," says "a look at repression in Czechoslovakia was always part of the plan" for the Zuckerman novels.
		Roth insists that the bizarre story of his anti-Zionist double, recounted in "Operation Shylock," is true, even though the book is billed as a novel.
		Roth's former wife, the actress Claire Bloom published a scathing memoir called "Leaving a Doll's House," which paints him as a self-centered misogynist and tells a bitter if one-sided story of a love gone sour.
	www.nytimes.com /glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/11/specials/roth.html&OQ=_rQ3D3Q26orefQ3DsloginQ26orefQ3Dslogin&OP=71191db2Q2F.,Q2AY.Q7EyQ7DeVyyJ.Yyyfe.pH.Q26Q60.Q26Q26.eQ3CQ2AQ7DoQ5EKe.VyJ!-!JuK (1257 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Philip Roth
		Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the thirties and...
		Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.
		In Philip Roth’s intimate intellectual encounters 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.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=26289 (1380 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Philip Roth - Books: Meet the Writers
		Award-winning author Philip Roth has made a career of confronting the heartbreaking dissolution of relationships, the absurdity of sexual neuroses, and the downside of his own literary fame.
		Roth's most eyebrow-raising work is a classic capsule of the Jewish-American experience, as lewdly and hilariously narrated from the shrink's couch by one Alexander Portnoy.
		Roth stuck with his literary alter ego in later novels after the Zuckerman Bound trilogy, but mainly as a narrator.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=91270 (317 words)

	Heil to the Chief
		Roth is ill at ease in the American past; his research seems to have consisted of a quick flip through the courtier histories of James MacGregor Burns and Arthur Schlesinger.
		Philip’s brother spends the summer with a “Kentucky tobacco farmer.” He returns with an accent, respect for farm life, a taste for ham and bacon, and a dose of the fascist clap that Philip Roth imagines lurks everywhere in that darksome forest of fear west of the Hudson.
		The faces, the voices, the ejaculations (because, after all, this is Philip Roth): these people are Newark, and we are made to understand the enormity of their unmooring.
	www.amconmag.com /2004_09_27/review.html (2070 words)

	Innocence Lost - Philip Roth's American fulminations. By Paul Berman
		A mailman stops me in the street--I'm not making this up--to expound his own deduction from Philip Roth's tale of family calamity, to wit, that without a clear sense of God, modern Americans are doomed to lose their bearings and society will go to hell.
		And on this perfectly nice and liberal-minded businessman, Roth, in his malicious rage, has bestowed a monster of a daughter, a stuttering left-wing bomb thrower and murderous lunatic destined to ruin her daddy's family and his life--just to show what comes of so much cheer and post-ethnic American optimism.
		There are passages where Roth, describing the rural New Jersey landscape from within the Swede's benign imagination, produces a fine, sugary lyricism that is not more than 5 percent ironic--a lyricism of white pasture fences and rolling hay fields and the Swede pretending to be Johnny Appleseed, tossing his imaginary seed.
	www.slate.com /id/2984 (1077 words)

	USATODAY.com - Philip Roth honored in old Newark neighborhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roth, whose American Pastoral was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1997, was greeted at his childhood home by 75 fans who were on a bus tour Sunday of places in Newark that have been featured in his novels.
		Roth was considered a front-runner for this year's Nobel, but the award went to British playwright Harold Pinter.
		Roth last visited the home, where he lived from 1933 to 1942, two years ago.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-10-24-roth-honored_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA (243 words)

	Preserving words of a provocateur - 08/09/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roth, a two-time National Book Award winner, joins Saul Bellow and Eudora Welty as the only American writers to have their complete works preserved by the Library of America during their lifetimes.
		Roth has been a literary provocateur, raising the hackles of fellow Jews (he has been called a Jewish anti-Semite) and making critics a generation ago uneasy over his satirical explorations of sex.
		Roth's more recent novels, such as his trilogy of "American Pastoral," "I Married a Communist" and "The Human Stain," and last year's "The Plot Against America" have overwhelmed Roth's early novels, Rudin said.
	www.detnews.com /2005/books/0508/09/0ent-275372.htm (751 words)

	Powell's Books - The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth
		The novel is, in addition, a moving family drama, in which Philip's fiercely ethical father, Herman, finds himself unable to protect his loved ones, and a family schism develops between those who understand the eventual outcome of Lindbergh's policies and those who are co-opted into abetting their own potential destruction.
		Many episodes are touching and hilarious: young Philip experiences the usual fears and misapprehensions of a pre-adolescent; locks himself into a neighbor's bathroom; gets into dangerous mischief with a friend; watches his cousin masturbating with no comprehension of the act.
		In this alternate history, Pulitzer Prize-winner Roth considers what it would be like for his Newark family — and for a million such families all over the country — during the menacing years of a Charles Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews would have every reason to expect the worst.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=8-0618509283-0 (1389 words)

	Roth, Philip: The Human Stain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Human Stain is the third of Philip Roth's trilogy of novels that explore the relationship between public and private life in America during the second half of the 20th century.
		As is the case with Saul Bellow, Roth's sentences are a world of their own, a joy to read.
		While Roth might consider fanaticism the root of evil, his persona (in the voice of Zuckerman or otherwise) is anything but moderate.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/roth11900-des-.html (622 words)

	Philip Roth
		Philip Roth was born in 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in the Jewish neighborhood of Weequahic.
		Jack Beatty surveys Philip Roth's vision of modern America in his recently completed "post-war trilogy," American Pastoral, I Married a Communist and The Human Stain.
		Jack Murnighan returns to Philip Roth's novel Sabbath's Theater, this time pondering a scene in which the title character is caught masturbating under compromising circumstances.
	www.dazereader.com /philiproth.htm (551 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Philip Roth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On the last page of Philip Roth’s memoir Patrimony (1991), he tells of a terrifying dream that came in the weeks following the burial of his father, an assimilated secular Jew who had never exhibited any particular inclination toward faith.
		One needs to approach Roth’s novels with an awareness of their double status as “faithful” representations of the condition of the American “diaspora” and as portraits of an altogether interior drama that serves him as a funhouse mirror of the public reality of Jewish-American culture.
		From the perspective of the twenty-first century, it seems clear that from the outset, Roth’s oeuvre has resembled something much more complicated the history of Jewish-American culture—a complex history of border crossings between the “Jewish” and the “American” that has scrambled the exclusive nature of both.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4939 (574 words)

	Philip Roth Blows Up
		Philip Roth Blows Up At a ripe 67, he's in the throes of an unprecedented creative explosion.
		Ten years ago, Roth was still considered a literary troublemaker, a gleeful misogynist, a self-absorbed rake who made it impossible for an entire generation to look at liver the same way again.
		Actually, during the eighties, most of Roth's readers were getting a little sick of Nathan Zuckerman, the author's self-pitying, relentlessly introspective alter ego who made less progress after five books than the Malaspina Glacier has in five millennia.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/features/2983 (848 words)

	Philip Roth's The Human Stain
		But Roth's novel is an attack on the militancy of college-campus political correctness and the feminists whose Roth character believes are hypocritcal.
		Writing of the Greek gods, Roth says they are like humans in their cruelty--leaving stains of excrement and semen wherever they go--and their desire for erotic love.
		Roth reveals her thoughts as she reflects on her status as a beautiful expatriate intellectual utterly alone in the word.
	walkerrowe.com /humanstain.html (755 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: Philip Roth
		Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, on March 19, 1933, to Bess Finkel Roth, the nurturing "historian of our childhood," and Herman Roth, the son of an Orthodox, Yiddish-speaking immigrant from Galicia.
		Roth went on tapping the vein of self-division in its various forms--past and present, family and self, conscience and concupiscence, Israel and America, fact and fiction--in succeeding novels: Sabbath's Theater (1995) won the National Book Award; American Pastoral (1997) won the Pulitzer prize.
		Ultimately, the truth of Philip Roth's story may lie in two epigraphs he chose: a Yiddish proverb for Goodbye, Columbus--"The heart is half a prophet"--and a biblical figure for Operation Shylock (1993)--Jacob wrestling the angel until daybreak.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /culture/literature/Overview_Jewish_American_Literature/Into_The_Literary_Mainstream/Literature_PhilRoth_Norton.htm (1202 words)

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