{"product_id":"shop-talk","title":"Shop Talk - A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work (Vintage International)","description":"\u003cb\u003eDeeply   intimate encounters between the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author of   \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral \u003c\/i\u003eand the greatest writers and artists of the 20th   century—from Primo Levi and Milan Kundera to Edna O’Brien and Philip   Guston.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Roth manages to tease from his subjects the convictions that fuel their work and the vulnerabilities that make them human.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Philip Roth’s intimate intellectual conversations with an international   and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics   and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer’s   highly individualized art is informed by the wider conditions of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With Primo Levi, Roth discusses the stubborn core of rationality that   helped the Italian chemist-writer survive the demented laboratory of   Auschwitz. With Milan Kundera, he analyzes the mix of politics and sexuality   that made him the most subversive writer in communist Czechoslovakia. With   Edna O’Brien, he explores the circumstances that have forced generations of   Irish writers into exile. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElsewhere Roth offers appreciative portraits of two   friends—the writer Bernard Malamud and the painter Philip Guston—at the end   of their careers, and gives us a masterful assessment of the work of Saul   Bellow. Intimate, charming, and crackling with ideas about the interplay   between imagination and the writer’s historical situation, \u003ci\u003eShop Talk\u003c\/i\u003e is a   literary symposium of the highest level, presided over by America’s foremost   novelist.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50956731318560,"sku":"9780375714139","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780375714139.jpg?v=1763744171","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/shop-talk","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}