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My Life As a Man by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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. At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants t ...Show more
Nemesis by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction
Summer, 1944. In the 'stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. Vigorous, decent, twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and di ...Show more
Nemesis by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction
Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives. Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed ...Show more
Nemesis by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the startling and surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new book- a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 ...Show more
Novels 1993 - 1995: Operation Shylock / Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction
The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works continues with two novels that heralded the beginning of a more than decade-long creative explosion-one remarkable in an older writer and hailed by critics as unparalleled in American literary history. In the diabolically imagi ...Show more
Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction
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 to the 'real' Philip Roth. This work is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, and a confession.
Other Men's Daughters by Richard Stern; Philip Roth (Introduction by); Wendy Doniger (Afterword by)
Category: Fiction
"Until the day of Merriwether's departure from the house--a month after his divorce--the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one" we read on the first page of Other Men's Daughters. It is the late 1960s, and the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are full of long-haired hippies decked o ...Show more
Our Gang by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gangis Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth portrays an American president who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of ...Show more
PRAGUE ORGY,THE by ROTH PHILIP
Category: Fiction
In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalised oppression, that ...Show more
Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth
Category: Biography
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, Philip Roth creates his most irrepressible and irresistible hero yet - his father.
Patrimony: a True Story by Philip Roth
Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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Philip Roth: Novels 1967-1972 by Philip Roth
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America (Hardcover)
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.