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The Anatomy Lesson
by Philip Roth
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New
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About This Item
About this Item: Franklin Library, Franklin Center Pennsylvania, 1983. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Burt Silverman (illustrator). 1st Edition. SIGNED First Edition is As NEW never opened and beautifully bound in full top grain brown leather with gilt blind stamps and spine lettering, gilt edges and a fine silk page holder. Book is signed by the author on the first free end paper. Franklin Library commissioned the fine copy for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Having buried his father in the previous novel Zuckerman Unbound, Zuckerman find himself middle aged and an undiagnosable pain. The mysterious ailment keeps him unable to write, laid up and away from his normal regime. Barred by pain and boredom, Zuckerman finds himself wandering anxiously over failed marriages and lost family members. With all this going on, he decides to return to his alma mater, The University of Chicago to pursue a medical degree. This is the final book in the Zuckerman trilogy and a fine addition to any library. Collectible NEW SIGNED edition. Signed by Author
Synopsis
In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral . In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.
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- Oshtemo Book Sellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13210
- Title
- The Anatomy Lesson
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Illustrator
- Burt Silverman
- Format/Binding
- Bound in brown top grain leather
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1983
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Signed First Edition
- Size
- 8vo
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- Unbound
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