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Aug 23, 2020 · A novel narrated by octogenarian ex-sportswriter Word Smith, who plans to write the 'Great American Novel' and also to tell the tragic and hilarious story of the Ruppert Mundys - the only homeless baseball team ever to play in the big league, who have disappeared from all official histories. Originally published: Jonathan Cape, 1973.
Jan 1, 2001 · Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity.
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The Great American Novel. Philip Roth. Macmillan, 1980 - Fiction - 382 pages. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral--a richly imagined novel featuring America's only...
- Philip Roth
- Macmillan, 1980
- 0374515840, 9780374515843
- The Great American NovelPenguin Books
- THE CONTENDERS.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. Gatsby’s magic emanates not only from its powerhouse poetic style—in which ordinary American language becomes unearthly—but from the authority with which it nails who we want to be as Americans.
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick. Among all Great American Novel candidates, perhaps Moby-Dick (1851) best meets Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee’s test. [“As long as the classic needs to be protected from attack, it can never prove itself classic.”]
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird. [T]he Great American Novel is a moving target and that the space is filled by a novel that in any particular time best fulfills three main criteria
Apr 11, 1995 · From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—a richly imagined novel featuring America’s only homeless big-league baseball team in history delivers “shameless comic...
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- Philip Roth
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995
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Philip Roth's richly imagined satiric narrative, The Great American Novel, turns baseball's status as national pastime and myth into an unfettered farce Featuring heroism and perfidy,...
