Bloom, approached by a reporter for an interview the other day, said: ''I am just desolate. Bloom has already given New York magazine would follow. Holly Wilkinson, a press agent for Little, Brown, said that an article based on an exclusive interview that Ms. Bloom to talk about the book until it publishes an excerpt, scheduled for next month, Ms. Bloom has a contract from Vanity Fair for ''a lot of money,'' said her agent, Tina Bennett of Janklow & Nesbit Associates. ''It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces,'' he said. Vidal is trying to distance himself from the memoir. They were together 17 years it couldn't have been all that bad.'' Like most of the couple's friends, Mr. ''He's tense she's tense,'' Gore Vidal said from his home in Ravello, Italy. Those few friends of the couple willing to speak publicly about their relationship profess that it seemed fine to them.
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The book, called ''Leaving a Doll's House,'' paints the author as a self-centered misogynist and tells a bitter if one-sided story of a love gone sour.Īdvance copies of the book have been circulating, and the gossip is considerable. Roth's former wife, the actress Claire Bloom. Next month, Little, Brown & Company will publish a scathing memoir by Mr. Roth is playing a role in someone else's book, and the portrait is even less flattering than anything he might have written himself.
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In book after book he has skirted perilously close to autobiography, naming characters ''Philip'' and turning his own life inside out for public inspection and even condemnation. Few major American novelists have as eagerly breached the boundaries of fact and fiction as Philip Roth.