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Novelist Philip Roth remembered
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:38:23
Publish Date: 2018-05-23 14:13:00
Description: The American writer Philip Roth, whose death at the age of 85 was announced today, is remembered by Ian McEwan, his biographer Claudia Pierpont, and American novelist Amy Bloom. From Roth's first novel Goodbye Columbus in 1959 to Portnoy's Complaint, American Pastoral and The Plot Against America, he was writer who courted controversy and explored complex themes concerning sexuality, Jewish life and America. Presenter John Wilson Producer Hilary Dunn.
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