Philip Roth

'Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES

'Utterly engrossing' EVENING STANDARD

'Compulsively readable... Beautifully written... Definitive' OBSERVER

Appointed by Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American m ...