This collection of interviews reveals the intellectual and creative life of one of America's 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.
- ISBN10 0878055576
- ISBN13 9780878055579
- Publish Date 1 January 1998 (first published 1 May 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 August 2021
- Imprint University Press of Mississippi
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 291
- Language English