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"In this, the second volume of The Library of America17s definitive edition of the collected works of Philip Roth, published by special arrangement with the author, the range and inventiveness of Roth17s fiction is dazzlingly displayed in four extraordinarily diverse works.When She Was Goodnbsp(1967) is the trenchant portrait of Lucy Nelson, a young midwestern woman whose perception of her own suffering turns her into a ferocious force, 20enemy-ridden and unforgivingly defiant,21 as Roth would later describe her. A small-town 1940s America of restrictive social pressures and foreclosed opportunities provides the novel17s background.The publication of the hilariousnbspPortnoy17s Complaintnbsp(1969) was a cultural event that turned Roth into a reluctant celebrity. The confession of a bewildered psychoanalytic patient thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality yet held back by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood,nbspPortnoynbspunleashed Roth17s comic virtuosity and opened new avenues for American fiction.InnbspOur Gangnbsp(1971), described by Anthony Burgess as a 20brilliant satire in the real Swift tradition,21 Roth effects a savage takedown of the administration of Richard Nixon (who figures here as Trick E. Dixon). Written before the revelations of the Watergate scandal,nbspOur Gangnbspcontinues to resonate as a broad and outraged response to the clownish hypocrisy and moral theatrics of the American political scene.The Kafkaesque excursionnbspThe Breastnbsp(1972) introduces David Kepesh in the first volume of a trilogy that continues withnbspThe Professor of Desirenbsp(1977) andnbspThe Dying Animalnbsp(2001).nbspThe Breastnbspprompted Cynthia Ozick to remark, 20One knows when one is reading something that will permanently enter the culture.21LIBRARY OF AMERICAnbspis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation17s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America17s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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