{"product_id":"our-gang-isbn-9780375726842","title":"Our Gang","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e comes a brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon that was Richard M. Nixon. • “Disturbing, logical...and very funny.... In short, a masterpiece\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn’t have a problem with killing unarmed women and children in self-defense. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on Pro-Pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting public. | \"Disturbing, logical...and very funny.... In short, a masterpiece.\"\u003cb\u003e —\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York   Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Perhaps the funniest and most complex exercise in sustained political   satire since \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\"Outrageously hilarious.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSaturday Review   of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Brilliant satire in the real Swift tradition.\"\u003cb\u003e —Anthony Burgess\u003c\/b\u003e | PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018. | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303519768805,"sku":"NP9780375726842","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375726842.jpg?v=1767734321","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/our-gang-isbn-9780375726842","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}