Philip Roth, whose raucous, playful, elegant and often outrageous novels about Jewish life and sex and death and betrayal made him one of the country's greatest novelists, died today at age 85. -
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Philip Roth dies at 85; novelist both probed and skewered Jewish American culture - Los Angeles Times
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