{"product_id":"the-prague-orgy-isbn-9780679749035","title":"The Prague Orgy","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e—“a lithe comic masterpiece” (\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e) consisting of notebook entries from one of his best-loved characters, Nathan Zuckerman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, an appealingly perverse kind of heroism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Prague Orgy \u003c\/i\u003ecompletes the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman bound. It provides a startling ending to Roth's intricately designed magnum opus on the unforeseen consequences of art.\"One of Roth's most brilliant (and funniest) works ... a lithe comic masterpiece.\"   \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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—Harold Bloom, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003ePHILIP 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.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302242144485,"sku":"NP9780679749035","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679749035.jpg?v=1767741049","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-prague-orgy-isbn-9780679749035","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}