About the Author

Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for "American Pastoral" in 1998. He is a two-time winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has received the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005, he became the third living American writer to see his work published by the Library of America.

Reviews

"Roth invents baseball anew, as pure slapstick.... An awesome performance." "The New Republic," on the English-language edition
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"Roth is better than he's ever been before.... The prose is electric." "The Atlantic, "on the English-language edition
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