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In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House, and in 2002 received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2005, Philip Roth became the third living American writer to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. The last of the eight volumes is scheduled for publication in 2013.
Here is a noble revelation of the curel vulnerability of the body we live in without choice * Times Literary Supplement * At his best, Philip Roth constructs his novels from huge blocks of material, to produce an effect that is overpowering * Observer * Taken together the Zuckermam novels read as both a noisy New Jersey Kaddish for 50 years of American History and an extraordinary contemporary Song of Myself * New Statesman * If its subject embraces mortality, its sentences ring with vitality, and Roth reminds us why the transforming exigencies of prose fiction still matter even as the light begins to die * Mail on Sunday * There are few writers who write with such power of the loss of powers * Times Literary Supplement *
