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Great American Authors Read From Their Works, Volume 1

By: Calliope Author Readings, Philip Roth
Narrated by: Philip Roth
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Publisher's summary

Playing three roles with verve, Philip Roth gives a hilariously comic performance of two old men living in a cheap rooming house who pay a visit to a diffident graduate student to ask a convoluted and unusual favor.

©1962 Philip Roth (P)1963 Calliope Author Readings

Critic reviews

“If Roth were not so good a writer it would be the world’s duty to force him onto the stage." Saturday Review (John Ciardi)

“The Roth record is the best of this first group.” (Detroit News)

"You get the exuberant surprise of Philip Roth not only reading, but acting two disillusioned, perpetually injured old boarding house inhabitants.” (Joan Wickersham, Boston Globe)

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