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Patrimony: a True Story by Philip Roth
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Category: Biography | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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Philip Roth: The American Trilogy by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America
Gathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works is the acclaimed "American Trilogy," a major milestone in contemporary American literature. In "American Pastoral" (1997), Swede Levov is wrenched from the tranquil ...Show more
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Blue
The groundbreaking novel that propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, Philip Roth's masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portn ...Show more
The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction
At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now, his work is trekking from one doctor to another, bu ...Show more
The Dying Animal by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction
David Kepesh is a 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 wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder and haunts him for ...Show more
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction
"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 England farmhouse of his literary idol, E. I. Lonoff. At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets ...Show more
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction
It is 1998, 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, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Sil ...Show more
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction
"When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Lindbergh had publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi Germany. ...Show more
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction
'Though on the morning after the election disbelief prevailed, especially among the pollsters, by the next everybody seemed to understand everything...'When celebrity aviator, Charles A. Lindbergh, wins the 1940 presidential election on the slogan of 'America First', fear invades every Jewish household. ...Show more
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction
Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history novel--the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president--is soon to be an HBO limited series. In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. ...Show more
Zuckerman Unbound by Philip Roth
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Category: Fiction
In Zuckerman Unbound--the second volume of the trilogy and epilogue "Zuckerman Bound" --the notorious novelist Nathan Zuckerman retreats from his oldest friends, breaks his marriage to a virtuous woman, and damages, perhaps irreparably, his affectionate connection to his younger brother, all of this ami ...Show more