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DVD

Philip Roth, unmasked

Call Number

  • DVD 921 R8453P (CEN)

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Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Publication Information

[Boston] : PBS Distribution, c2013.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Explore the life of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning novelist Philip Roth. He steadily earned his reputation as a man of letters, commanding ownership of the Jewish-American novel and making Newark New Jersey, a literary destination, while practically inventing the genre of factual-fictional autobiography.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally broadcast on PBS as an episode of American masters in 2013.

Special features: bonus videos including extended interviews with Roth and footage of Roth performing readings from his major novels.

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