菲利普·羅斯

一九九七年，菲利普·羅斯憑《美國牧歌》獲得普利策奬。一九九八年，他榮獲白宮頒發的美國國傢藝術奬章，並於二〇〇二年獲得美國藝術與人文學院最高奬——小說金奬，之前獲奬者包括約翰?多斯?帕索斯、威廉?福剋納、索爾?貝婁等。他曾分彆兩度獲得美國國傢圖書奬、美國筆會/福剋納奬和美國書評協會奬。

二〇〇五年，《反美陰謀》一書榮獲二〇〇三至二〇〇四年度美國曆史學傢協會奬，被該協會譽為“一部反映美國主題的曆史小說傑作”，並被《紐約時報?書評周刊》、《舊金山紀事報》、《波士頓環球報》、《芝加哥太陽時報》、《洛杉磯時報?書評周刊》、《華盛頓郵報?書評世界》、《時代》周刊、《新聞周刊》等許多報刊評選為年度好書。在英國，《反美陰謀》榮獲W.H.史密斯年度好書奬，菲利普?羅斯是該奬設立四十六年來第一位兩度獲奬的作傢。

二〇〇五年，羅斯成為第三位在世時被收入“美國文庫”齣版作品全集的美國作傢。這套八捲本文集計劃於二〇一三年齣齊。

Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" ( New York Times ) to one man's lifelong skirmish with mortality.

The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physical woes.

The terrain of this powerful novel is the human body. Its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all.