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A review of Blake Bailey's "Philip Roth: The Biography"

Jun 9

                                                            Philip Roth
                                                           Blake Bailey
                                             W. W. Norton, 912 pages, 2021

By 1972, Philip Roth was free. Free from the hell of his first marriage, free to enjoy the fame and financial windfall of Portnoy’s Com…

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