Conversations with Philip Roth (Literary Conversations Series)

This collection of interviews reveals the intellectual and creative life of one of Americas contemporary masters of fiction writing. In spanning his richly productive career they convey a sense of his continuity and of his growth as a novelist. Roth has said that one of his goals is to reconcile experience that I am strongly attached to be temperament and training--the aggressive the crude and the obscene at one extreme and something a good deal more subtle and in every sense refined at the other. These conversations reveal a savvy thoughtful man who shows great intelligence confidence and wit as well as an admirable sense of humility and tact.