Book Reviews
Philip Roth biography: Compelling chronicle of a great unrehabilitated American master
In 1960, Philip Roth visited Dublin with William Styron. Roth had just won the National Book Award in the United States with Goodbye, Columbus, a novella and four stories. He was the youngest winner of the prize and together with a Guggenheim Fellowship under his belt, he made the trip to Europe. While their wives went shopping, Styron, who was about to publish his third novel, but yet to pen Sophie’s Choice, and the precocious Roth went to find “some good clean fun” in Ireland’s literary capital.
