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Philip Roth
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…
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionEveryman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism.
A young novelist’s obsession with proving his manhood is transferred to his fiction and echoed in his tempestuous marriage.
Novelist Nathan Zuckerman challenges the many schemes concocted by people around him for reversing their seemingly irreversible destinies.
Now that whaling is banned and the Mississippi is a tourist attraction, the subject for anything resembling The Great American Novel could only be baseball. And the author could only…
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Collects the interviews, essays and articles that span a quarter of a century of Philip Roth’s distinguished career and ‘reveal a preoccupation with the relationship between the written and the…
A tough-minded, beautifully written memoir (San Francisco Chronicle), this National Book Critics Circle Award winner tells a true, emotionally touching story. Roth watches as his 86-year-old father–famous for his vigor…
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail. Since then, Lucy has become a furious adolescent - raging against middle-class life and…
With his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain…
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 11 years before. Alone on…
A novel which features the literary novelist Nathan Zuckerman. Zuckerman, dogged by personal neuroses and ill-health, has to contend with a tough television celebrity, who accuses him of plagiarising his…
A chronicle of the passion and desire of David Kepesh and of his endeavors, from adolescent accession to middle-aged ebb, to realize and sustain erotic happiness and domestic security.
How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality? What becomes of ‘the facts’ after they have…
It’s the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges…
Soon to be an HBO Miniseries from executive producer David Simon A masterwork of counterfactual history. –The New Yorker
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral tells of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big-time 1940s radio star, who is destroyed, as both a performer and a…
Combining the moral seriousness of his American Trilogy with the furious energy he brought to Sabbath’s Theater and The Professor of Desire, Roth performs a virtuosic set of variations on…
This third volume of The Library of America’s definitive edition of Philip Roth’s collected works presents three markedly different novels that together trace a crucial period in the bold evolution…
DISCOVER THE NOVEL BEHIND THE BRILLIANT NEW TV DRAMA ‘Though on the morning after the election disbelief prevailed, especially among the pollsters, by the next everybody seemed to understand everything…’…
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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…
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral. Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself…
Radio actor Iron Rinn is a roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist turned popular performer, he marries America’s reigning…
Phillip Roth confronts his double, an imposter whose self-appointed task is to lead the jews out of Israel and back to Europe, a moses in reverse and a monstrous nemesis…
A political satire, this work is an indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M Nixon. In the character of Trick E. Dixon, it show us a man who outdoes…
‘This is a vicious, furious book, unapologetically not of this age - it is also horribly funny and unflinchingly honest’ New StatesmanDavid Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is…
Nathan Zuckerman is visiting Prague, where intellectuals come searching for Kafta, where misfits who don’t submit decently to their misfortunes act out a comedy of manners in decadence. Here Zuckerman…
The finale to Roth’s Zuckerman trilogy. Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious physical affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession…
Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. audacious, heretical - as darkly hilarious as it is existentially unnerving…
When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invades every Jewish household in America. Lindbergh…
Tells the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer break and dive into an affair…
A work of candour and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. It concentrates on five episodes from Philip Roth’s life.
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…
‘This swift, elegant, disturbing novel…stands at the extreme of contemporary fiction’ New York Times Book Review He is a middle-aged American writer called Philip; In Philip’s London studio, this play…
‘A tragedy of classical proportions…a magnificent novel’ The Times Discover the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers. ‘Swede’ Levov is living the…
This is the conclusion to Roth’s brilliant trilogy of post-war America - a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration. ‘An extraordinary…
The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention to one man’s lifelong confrontation with mortality. Roth’s hero is a man bewildered not only by his own…
An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history, when, in 1968, his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger…
Set in 1998, when ideological divisions are made manifest through public denunciations and rituals of purification, the newest novel by award-winning author Philip Roth concludes his eloquent trilogy of postwar…
Roth’s award-winning first book – about Neil Klugman, Brenda Patimkin, and their relationship which tests the boundaries of suspicion, social class, and love – instantly established its author’s reputation as…
Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.
A Moses in reverse and a man whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back to Europe is at the center of this meditation on…
Thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality and at the same time held back by the iron grip of his childhood, Alexander Portnoy is one of Philip Roth’s most intriguing…
For the first time in paperback, here is the bold and utterly outrageous new novel of a libidinous 64-year-old curmudgeon by the National Book Award winner, Philip Roth.
In this alternate history, Pulitzer Prize winner Roth considers what it would be like for his Newark family during the menacing years of a Charles Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens…
This peer-reviewed semiannual journal published by Purdue University Press in cooperation with the Philip Roth Society, welcomes all writing pertaining entirely or in part to Philip Roth, his fiction, and…
Steven Milowitz
This book comprehensively surveys Roth’s works, focusing on the thematic unity, which binds them together: the memory of the Holocaust and the altered universe born of that memory.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.