A review by mimika9
Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey

3.0

It is very difficult to rate this book. On one hand, it is exhaustively researched and extremely readable but on the other hand, giving equal weight to his sex life and his work weakens the work. What a pity that Hermione Lee wasn’t able to be Roth’s biographer. I think we would have gotten a much more complex nuanced work.