The Anatomy Lesson
by Roth, Philip
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
Franklin Library, 1983 First edition; Near Fine in full leather with three raised bands and gold stamping, all edges gilt, silk ribbon placemarker and printed marble endpapers; one of an unspecified number of copies of the first edition; Signed by Philip Roth on blank page. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket.
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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- Bookseller
- Evergreen Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-5993766911
- Title
- The Anatomy Lesson
- Author
- Roth, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Date Published
- 1983
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