1971, ISBN: 9780394478869

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", is bound in quarter black cloth and blue paper-covered boards, with stamped silver, red and gilt lettering to spine. Author's… More...

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", is bound in quarter black cloth and blue paper-covered boards, with stamped silver, red and gilt lettering to spine. Author's initials are stamped in gold on front cover, under two stamped red stars. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Top edge of text block is tinted red. Small ink stamp appears on front flyleaf. Interior is otherwise clean and bright. Dust jacket, with $5.95 price on front flap, shows light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 200 pages.""Our Gang" is Philip Roth's first book since "Portnoy's Complaint." Those readers who have followed Mr. Roth's career from its beginnings will not be surprised to find him moving into a new and startling direction. If, as some critics wrote, "Portnoy's Complaint" was the funniest book ever written on sex in America, then "Our Gang" may turn out to be the funniest book yet written on American politics. Once again Philip Roth has take a seemingly familiar subject, and with his fiercely comic imagination, carried it to a revealingly bizarre extreme. It is difficult to think of another American literary work of such sustained satiric thrust and irreverent inventiveness as "Our Gang."The hero -- or villain -- of "Our Gang" is Trick E. Dixon, self-pronounced legal whiz, peace-loving "Quaker," and somehow President of the United States. "Tricky," as imagined by Roth, is a hypocritical opportunist such as might be found in a comedy by Moliere; and his public language is a merciless parody of that "candid" Presidential prose which is an amalgam of anesthetizing cliches, Sunday School pieties, and plain old double-talk. Cast largely in the form of interviews, press conferences and public addresses, "Our Gang" demonstrates what George Orwell meant when he wrote: "In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible." Though steeped in an atmosphere of farce and fantasy, and at times deliberately evocative of Keystone Kop slapstick and baggy-pants burlesque, "Our Gang" is plainly a work conceived in moral indignation. It is Philip Roth's stinging and uproarious vision of a national leadership speaking the sort of debased language that, according to George Orwell, is "designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.", Random House, 1971, 3<

1971, ISBN: 039447886X

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780394478869], Used, very good, [PU: Random House, New York, New York, U.S.A.], Jacket, New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hardc… More...

[EAN: 9780394478869], Used, very good, [PU: Random House, New York, New York, U.S.A.], Jacket, New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 039447886X . A very nice First Edition/First Printing in Very Good plus condition, dust jacket has some mild edgewear but no visible tear. No folds, marks or tears in book. A collectible copy of Roth's fifth novel; A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang is Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon. 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 . Random House 039447886X US, Books<

1971, ISBN: 9780394478869

New York:: Random House,, (1971.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Roth's fifth novel; A political satire in the great tradition, a… More...

New York:: Random House,, (1971.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Roth's fifth novel; A political satire in the great tradition, an indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon, but one which resonates now with a character who speaks the sort of debased language that is designed, in the words of George Orwell, "to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." 200 pp., Random House, 4<

1971, ISBN: 9780394478869

NY: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket faintly rubbed.. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 039447886X . Cloth-backed boards. An early novel by the late Philip Roth. ; 8… More...

NY: Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket faintly rubbed.. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 039447886X . Cloth-backed boards. An early novel by the late Philip Roth. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages ., Random House, 1971, 3<