Joseph Roth — Joseph Roth / A Life in Letters

Granta. 2012, Hardcover with dust jacket, fair copy, some foxing to edges. Michael Hofmann presents this new biography of the novelist and European journalist, Joseph Roth, told through letters. The letters span the breadth of Roth's life, from his schoolboy years to the veteran of 44, marked by war, poverty, alcoholism, the loss of his wife through madness, and two decades of prolific work.