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The Prague Orgy (Paperback)

by Philip Roth (Author)
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"One of Roth's most brilliant (and funniest) works...a lithe comic masterpiece." —Newsweek

"Obscenely outrageous and yet brilliantly reflective of a paranoid reality that has become universal. It is the best of Roth, a kind of coda to all his fiction so far." —Harold Bloom, The New York Times Book Review

"This fitting capstone to Roth's Zuckerman trilogy proves that no one now writing can be funnier and more passionately serious than Philip Roth." —Time


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In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, an appealingly perverse kind of heroism.

The Prague Orgy
, consisting of entries from protagonist Nathan Zuckerman's notebooks recording his sojourn among these outcast artists, completes the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman bound. It provides a startling ending to Roth's intricately designed magnum opus on the unforeseen consequences of art.

This Vintage edition is the first paperback publication of the epilogue.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Great, Bawdy Romp, Jul 1 2000
By Arthur (Lawrence, Kansas) - See all my reviews
This is a true gem--a concise, ribald, hilarious and ingenious novella. Equal parts Kafka and copulation, this East-European tale will leave you satisfied.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not worth buying on its own, May 18 2000
By Edward A. Olson - See all my reviews
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This is good reading when preceded by the first three Zuckerman books. If you can find Zuckerman Bound, buy that, and get this baby included in the collection. That work, with 3 novels and this novella, is one of the best books Ive read.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Truly dismal, even for hardened Roth fans, Jul 10 1999
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Roth's worst book by a mile. Incredibly poorly written. Spare yourself this one , read Portnoy, The Ghost Writer or American Pastoral instead.
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