My Life as a Man by Philip Roth

'Roth's best.... No writer alive can sustain a full-length novel at as high a decibel level as Philip Roth' Newsweek

Are some of the world's most talented writers of children's books essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including Louisa May Alcott, creator of Little Women, and Salman Rushdie and his Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Dr Seuss and J. K. Rowling. In analysing these and many other authors, Alison Lurie shows how these gifted writers have used children's literature to transfigure sorrow, nostalgia and the struggles of their own experience.

Philip Roth

Reviews

“ [My Life as a Man is] a scalding, unique addition to the lasting literature about men and women. ”

Newsday

“ A very grand work...in invention, in perception...in coming to grips with the wild inconsistencies of life and art. ”

New Yorker

EBook

9781446400746

June 1, 2011

Vintage Digital

336 pages
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Paperback

9780099515319

October 6, 2005

Vintage

336 pages

RRP $22.99
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