Claudia Roth Pierpont, Author Alfred A. Knopf $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-43106-0
Considering ""how ambitious women worked out their destinies in an age of momentous transition,"" Pierpont scrutinizes 12 well-known 20th-century women in these essays (revised and expanded from their original publication in the New Yorker). In her...
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Claudia Roth Pierpont. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-3742-8051-2
In 2012, acclaimed novelist Philip Roth famously declared that he was retiring, sending shudders of disbelief through the literary world. Drawing on conversations with Roth and featuring insightful close readings of his entire oeuvre, longtime New...
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Claudia Roth Pierpont. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-3741-0440-5
Pierpont’s (Roth Unbound) colorful portraits of writers, actors, and musicians including Edith Wharton, James Baldwin, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Nina Simone, and George Gershwin, among others, offer a kaleidoscopic mural of America’s...
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