{"product_id":"the-prague-orgy-a-novel-isbn-9780063508439","title":"The Prague Orgy: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Obscenely outrageous and yet brilliantly reflective of a paranoid reality that has become universal. It is the best of Roth.”\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Prague Orgy\u003c\/i\u003e offers a peek into the iconic Nathan Zuckerman's notebook as he travels communist Prague, seeking the lost manuscripts of a Yiddish martyr.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1970s, the gifted writer Nathan Zuckerman journeys to Czechoslovakia in search of unpublished stories of a late Yiddish writer. Zuckerman has been knocked about by the literary establishment in the states and disparaged by critics and fans alike, but he finds that the authors in Soviet-occupied Prague face even worse treatment. As he becomes enmeshed with writers facing institutional oppression, censorship, and surveillance, and with increasing pressure to leave the country or else, Zuckerman develops a new perspective on totalitarianism and, perhaps, a warped sense of pleasure in his place among the persecuted.  \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“One of Roth’s most brilliant (and funniest) works … a lithe comic masterpiece.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This fitting capstone to Roth’s Zuckerman trilogy proves that no one now writing can be funnier and more passionately serious than Philip Roth.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Obscenely outrageous and yet brilliantly reflective of a paranoid reality that has become universal. It is the best of Roth, a kind of coda to all his fiction so far.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times  Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A black fable about the lies and fictions which are the life blood of both politics and literature.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588065767653,"sku":"NP9780063508439","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-prague-orgy-a-novel-isbn-9780063508439","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}