Philip Roth: Winner of the 2011 Man Booker International
Indignation
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio’s ... Buy or find out more →
Portnoy's Complaint
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy's who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgetable childhood. Buy or find out more →
The Human Stain
$19.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
It is 1988, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, it is the last year of the life of the forcibly retired, disgraced, widowed ... Buy or find out more →
Nemesis
$39.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
An absolutely brilliant new novel by one of the world's great writers
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In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with... Buy or find out more →
Sabbath's Theater
$12.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Micky Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose adulterous dari... Buy or find out more →
The Ghost Writer
$19.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New ... Buy or find out more →
The Dying Animal (aka Elegy)
$22.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealth... Buy or find out more →
The Prague Orgy
$22.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In this surreal and powerful coda to the Zuckerman trilogy, Nathan Zuckerman is visiting Prague, where intellectuals come searching for Kafta, where half the popluation is spying on the other half, where misfits who don'... Buy or find out more →
Novels And Other Narratives 1986-1991
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Library Of America
This fourth volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Roth's collected works presents four novels that recount the story of budding American writer Nathan Zuckerman. Includes "The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman U... Buy or find out more →
The Breast
$23.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed.But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fa... Buy or find out more →
The Professor Of Desire
$23.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both its ordinary and spectacular form... Buy or find out more →
The Humbling
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance... Buy or find out more →
The Counterlife
$22.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters o... Buy or find out more →
Exit Ghost
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The incomparable master Roth returns with the final Zuckerman book.
Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years befor... Buy or find out more →
Everyman
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, Everyman, is intended to be the p... Buy or find out more →
Goodbye Columbus
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Philip Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters. GOODBYE, COL... Buy or find out more →
The Plot Against America
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide inthe1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindber... Buy or find out more →
Operation Shylock: A Confession
$27.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Time Magazine Best American Novel
(1993)
In this fiendishly imaginative book (which may or may not be
fiction), Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip
Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring
I... Buy or find out more →
Everyman
$32.95$13.95 – Hardcover book / Jonathan Cape
Philip Roth's twenty-seventh book takes its title from an anonymous fifteenth-century English allegorical play whose drama centres on the summoning of the living to death and whose hero, EVERYMAN, is intended to be the p... Buy or find out more →
When She Was Good
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In this mesmerizing, funny, chilling novel. the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, the subject the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alc... Buy or find out more →
American Pastoral
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's glove factory - comes of age in thriving postwar America. He has a beautiful wife - M... Buy or find out more →
Sabbaths Theater
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Those who feel that Roth's last few novels, brilliant as they often were, have been excessively cerebral and self-referential, can relax at the prospect of his latest. For this is Roth in full sardonic, outrageous cry?a ... Buy or find out more →
I Married A Communist
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold), an idealistic Communist and uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer, emerges from serving in World War II passionately committed to making the world a better place and wi... Buy or find out more →
Zuckerman Unbound
$24.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
'He writes so well. His prose is both elegant and furious. It can be witty, tender and brutal in a single paragraph' Melvyn Bragg
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Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite ... Buy or find out more →
Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
$27.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
THE FACTS is a work of compelling candour and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from this life: his secure city chi... Buy or find out more →