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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375726845
ISBN-139780375726842
eBay Product ID (ePID)1897918
Product Key Features
Book TitleOur Gang
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicSatire, Literary, Political
GenreFiction
AuthorPhilip Roth
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-278781
Dewey Edition19
Reviews"Disturbing, logical...and very funny.... In short, a masterpiece." -- The New York Times Book Review "Perhaps the funniest and most complex exercise in sustained political satire since Animal Farm ." -- Newsweek "Outrageously hilarious." -- Saturday Review of Books "Brilliant satire in the real Swift tradition." --Anthony Burgess, "Disturbing, logical...and very funny.... In short, a masterpiece."- The New York Times Book Review "Perhaps the funniest and most complex exercise in sustained political satire since Animal Farm ." - Newsweek "Outrageously hilarious." - Saturday Review of Books "Brilliant satire in the real Swift tradition." -Anthony Burgess, "Disturbing, logical...and very funny.... In short, a masterpiece."-The New York Times Book Review "Perhaps the funniest and most complex exercise in sustained political satire since Animal Farm." - Newsweek "Outrageously hilarious." -Saturday Review of Books "Brilliant satire in the real Swift tradition." -Anthony Burgess
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral comes a brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon that was Richard M. Nixon. - "Disturbing, logical...and very funny.... In short, a masterpiece" -- The New York Times Book Review 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. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on Pro-Pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting public., 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. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on Pro-Pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting public., From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral comes a brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon that was Richard M. Nixon. * "Disturbing, logical...and very funny.... In short, a masterpiece" -- The New York Times Book Review 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. A master politician with an honest sneer, he finds himself battling the Boy Scouts, declaring war on Pro-Pornography Denmark, all the time trusting in the basic indifference of the voting public.