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Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir is an autobiography written by British actress Claire Bloom and published in 1996. Bloom writes about her life, career and relationships, including her first marriage to Rod Steiger. The main focus is on her troubled relationship with writer Philip Roth.
Philip Roth (m. 1990; div. 1995) Children: Anna Steiger: Relatives: John Bloom (brother) Patricia Claire Bloom CBE (born 15 February 1931) is an English actress.
Some reviewers, especially those in the British press such as Rachelle Thackray of The Independent [5] and Linda Grant of The Guardian, [6] consider the character of Eve Frame — the antisemitic wife who destroys Ira — to be a barely disguised riposte to Roth's ex-wife, Claire Bloom, for her unflattering memoirs, which portrayed Roth as unable to bottle his vanity and incapable of living in ...
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) [1] was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "sensual, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of ...
The Human Stain is a novel by Philip Roth, published May 5, 2000.The book is set in Western Massachusetts in the late 1990s. Its narrator is 65-year-old author Nathan Zuckerman, who appears in several earlier Roth novels, including two books that form a loose trilogy with The Human Stain, American Pastoral (1997) and I Married a Communist (1998). [1]
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The Ghost Writer is a 1979 novel by the American author Philip Roth. It is the first of Roth's novels narrated by Nathan Zuckerman, one of the author's putative fictional alter egos, and constitutes the first book in his Zuckerman Bound trilogy. The novel touches on themes common to many Roth works, including identity, the responsibilities of ...
Adapted by Ariel Levy and Roth’s longtime friend John Turturro, the play centers on 64-year-old puppet maker Mickey Sabbath. When his secret life of debauchery comes to an end, he plunges into ...