{"product_id":"shop-talk-a-writer-and-his-colleagues-and-their-work-9780375714139","title":"Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eDeeply intimate encounters between the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral \u003c\/i\u003eand the greatest writers and artists of the 20th century--from Primo Levi and Milan Kundera to Edna O'Brien and Philip Guston.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Roth manages to tease from his subjects the convictions that fuel their work and the vulnerabilities that make them human.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Philip Roth's intimate intellectual conversations 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With Primo Levi, Roth discusses the stubborn core of rationality that helped the Italian chemist-writer survive the demented laboratory of Auschwitz. With Milan Kundera, he analyzes the mix of politics and sexuality that made him the most subversive writer in communist Czechoslovakia. With Edna O'Brien, he explores the circumstances that have forced generations of Irish writers into exile. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElsewhere Roth offers appreciative portraits of two friends--the writer Bernard Malamud and the painter Philip Guston--at the end of their careers, and gives us a masterful assessment of the work of Saul Bellow. Intimate, charming, and crackling with ideas about the interplay between imagination and the writer's historical situation, \u003ci\u003eShop Talk\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary symposium of the highest level, presided over by America's foremost novelist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Roth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage International\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.16w x 0.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375714139","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42440362164361,"sku":"9780375714139","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_39d60049-4962-4b9c-99b8-575148d07bbe.jpg?v=1716238045","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/shop-talk-a-writer-and-his-colleagues-and-their-work-9780375714139","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}