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Philip Roth: The American Trilogy
$59.95 – Hardback / Library of America
Ross Miller wrote the chronology and notes for this volume --P. facing t.p. verso. Buy or find out more→
Philip Roth: Novels 1967-1972
$51.95 – Hardback / Library of America
Volume 2 in what will be the definitive 8-volume collector's edition of Philip Roth's fiction includes Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang, When She Was Good, and The Breast. Buy or find out more→
Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth
$120.00 – Hardback / Continuum Publishing Corporation
Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth exemplifies how literature and, specifically, the work of Philip Roth can help readers understand the ways in which individuals develop their political identity, learn to... Buy or find out more→
Philip Roth
$113.70 – Paperback / Cede Publishing
Ce contenu est une compilation d'articles de l'encyclop die libre Wikipedia. Philip Roth est un crivain am ricain n le 19 mars 1933 Newark, dans le New Jersey. Il acc de la reconnaissance internationale avec le recueil de... Buy or find out more→
Philip Roth
$64.00 – Paperback / Taylor & Francis Ltd
A study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth-century writer. Setting the novelist's work in the context of Jewish-American writing (and Jewish-American families) and twentieth-century American politics, it explores the... Buy or find out more→
Philip Roth
$145.00 – Hardback / Taylor & Francis Ltd
A study of Philip Roth as a major twentieth-century writer. Setting the novelist's work in the context of Jewish-American writing (and Jewish-American families) and twentieth-century American politics, it explores the... Buy or find out more→
The Major Phases of Philip Roth
$37.00 – Paperback / Continuum Publishing Corporation
Contains an account and reflection on each diverse stage of Philip Roth's fifty-year career. This book confronts his diversity by accounting for each stage of Rothian preoccupation, from the comedy and seriousness to the Judaism... Buy or find out more→
The Major Phases of Philip Roth
$110.00 – Hardback / Continuum Publishing Corporation
Includes an account and reflection on each diverse stage of Philip Roth's fifty-year career. This book confronts his diversity by accounting for each stage of Rothian preoccupation, from the comedy and seriousness to the Judaism... Buy or find out more→
Nemesis
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
At the centre of Nemesis is a vigorous, dutiful, twenty-three-year old playground director, Bucky Cantor, a javelin thrower and a weightlifter, who is devoted to his charges and disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have... Buy or find out more→
Deception
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
A famous writer and his mistress meet in a room without a bed. They talk, they play games with each other, they have sex, they tell lies. This work since Complaint , explores adultery and the unmasking of illicit lovers in a... Buy or find out more→
Everyman
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Intended to be the personification of mankind, this work traces from the author's first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers. It is a human story of the regret and loss and stoicism of... Buy or find out more→
American Pastoral
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Seymour Levov, a devoted family man and inheritor of his father's factory, comes of age in thriving post-war America. His daughter Merry is the apple of his eye until America begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s, and Merry... Buy or find out more→
Sabbath's Theater
$12.95 – Paperback / 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 daring exceeds... Buy or find out more→
Indignation
$22.95 – Paperback / Vintage
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 Winesburg... Buy or find out more→
Portnoy's Complaint
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
A story that tells about the confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. Buy or find out more→
The Ghost Writer
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
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 England farmhouse of his... Buy or find out more→
The Human Stain
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
In this novel by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author of I Married a Communist , a college professor with a sexual indiscretion in his past is hounded from his job by academic enemies who label him a racist. Buy or find out more→
Philip Roth: American Pastoral, the Human Stain, the Plot Against America
$37.00 – Paperback / Continuum Publishing Corporation
A collection of essays on Philip Roth offering critical readings and assessments of texts. It illuminates Roth's multilayered perceptions of twentieth-century America as a place, a culture, and an idea that shapes its inhabitants... Buy or find out more→
Philip Roth: American Pastoral, the Human Stain, the Plot Against America
$110.00 – Hardback / Continuum Publishing Corporation
Philip Roth has without doubt been one of the most important writers of fiction in the United States during the latter part of the twentieth century. This title collects essays by noted Roth scholars on three essential novels... Buy or find out more→
Imagination in Transit: Fiction of Philip Roth
$95.00 – Hardback / Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Philip Roth Considered: The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer
$196.00 – Hardback / Taylor & Francis Inc
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. Buy or find out more→
My Life as a Man
$83.95 – Audio / Brilliance Audio
A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel. Buy or find out more→
My Life as a Man
$27.95 – CD-Audio / Brilliance Corporation
A young novelist's obsession with proving his manhood is transferred to his fiction and echoed in his tempestuous marriage. Buy or find out more→
The Great American Novel
$27.95 – CD-Audio / Brilliance Corporation
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 be Philip Roth, who in this ribald, wickedly... Buy or find out more→
Indignation
$30.95 – Paperback / Gallimard
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 Winesburg... Buy or find out more→
Jewish American Literature: Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick
$66.95 – Paperback / GRIN Verlag oHG
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English - History of Literature, Eras, grade: keine, University of Freiburg (Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Introduction My work will try to deal with three... Buy or find out more→
The Plot Against America
$23.95 – Paperback / Vintage Books USA
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 who happened to be Jews would have... Buy or find out more→
Operation Shylock
$23.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
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 identity. Buy or find out more→
The Dying Animal
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
David Kepesh, white haired and over sixty, is an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college. He meets Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student of twenty-four, who promptly puts his life into erotic... Buy or find out more→
Operation Shylock: A Confession
$19.95 – Paperback / 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... Buy or find out more→
The Great American Novel
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Gill Gamesh, John Baal, Rupert Mundys: If you've never heard of them, it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. This novel turns baseball's status... Buy or find out more→
The Humbling
$21.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Roth's startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his 60s, Axler has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. Buy or find out more→
Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
$20.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
The Facts is an unconventional autobiography. Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the 1930s and '40s; his education in American life at a conventional college; his passionate... Buy or find out more→
Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Features a diverse cast of writers who explore the importance of region, politics, and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer's highly individualised art is informed by the wider conditions of life.... Buy or find out more→
I Married a Communist
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
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 radio actress and silent movie star,... Buy or find out more→
Our Gang: Starring Trick and His Friends
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
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 the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity... Buy or find out more→
The Professor of Desire
$19.95 – 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 forms. This... Buy or find out more→
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
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. Buy or find out more→
The Prague Orgy
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
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 meets Olga, and brings home... Buy or find out more→
The Anatomy Lesson
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
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 of his life. His work was his... Buy or find out more→
The Breast
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
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 this fantasy has become a 155-pound female... Buy or find out more→
Sabbath's Theater
$19.95 – Paperback / 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 daring exceeds... Buy or find out more→
Patrimony: A True Story
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Herman Roth is eighty-six years old, a widower and retired insurance manager, suffering from a brain tumour and fighting death. In a remarkable act of memory, elegy and appreciation, the author creates his most irrepressible and... Buy or find out more→
Exit Ghost
$22.95 – Paperback / Vintage
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 his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no... Buy or find out more→
Reading Myself and Others
$26.95 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
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 unwritten world.' Buy or find out more→
The Plot Against America
$24.95 – Paperback / Vintage
When Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. He publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany. This book recounts the menacing... Buy or find out more→