Vintage, 1998. — 432 p. Philip Roth's 22nd book takes a life-long view of the American experience in this thoughtful investigation of the century's most divisive and explosive of decades, the '60s. Returning again to the voice of his literary alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, Roth is at the top of his form. His prose is carefully controlled yet always fresh and intellectually subtle...
Vintage, 1998. — 432 p. Philip Roth's 22nd book takes a life-long view of the American experience in this thoughtful investigation of the century's most divisive and explosive of decades, the '60s. Returning again to the voice of his literary alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, Roth is at the top of his form. His prose is carefully controlled yet always fresh and intellectually subtle...
Philip Roth's award-winning first book is a coming-of-age tale about a poor Jewish librarian Neil Klugman and a pretty, rich and spoilt girl Brenda Patimkin. Set in 1950s America, their gentle courtship is disrupted by issues of social class, religion and sex. It tests the boundaries of suspicion and love. The novella is accompanied by five short stories, all of which have also...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. ISBN: 0-395-51850-4. — 190 p. First published 1959. With a preface to the thirtieth anniversary edition by the author. Philip Roth’s first book, Goodbye, Columbus (won the National Book Award) centres on the relationship between Neil Klugman, a poor Jewish librarian, and the very spoilt, precocious Brenda Patimkin, a girl from a nouveau...
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 to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud...
New York: Vintage International, Vintage eBooks, 2000. — 355 p.
What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you?
In this tour de force of fact and fiction, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring the State of Israel, promoting a bizarre exodus...
The famous 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. Hilariously funny, boldly intimate, startlingly candid, Portnoy’s Complaint was an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1969, and is perhaps Roth’s best-known book. Time magazine included...
(2000) is a novel set in late 1990s rural New England.
The Human Stain is the third of Philip Roth's trilogy of novels that explore the relationship between public and private life in America during the second half of the 20th century.
Novel (361 pp.)
New York: Vintage International, Vintage eBooks, 1995. — 242 p. In this funny and chilling novel (first published in 1967), the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson...
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