Philip Roth: Novels 1993-1995: Operation Shylock and Sabbath’s Theater.

ROTH, Philip.

Item Number: 1540

New York: Library of America, 2010.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page.

In the 1990s Philip Roth won America's four major literary awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for Patrimony (1991), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock (1993), the National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater (1995), and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for American Pastoral (1997). He won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist (1998); in the same year he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. Previously he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Counterlife (1986) and the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus in 1959.