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...

Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a...

'The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book - lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions' John UpdikeWith his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, the writer Nathan...

In 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War, student Marcus is pulled out of his New Jersey school and sent to Ohio by his paranoid father. On his own, far from home, Marcus must make his own way in the world. von Roth, Philip

In Philip Roth's intimate intellectual encounters with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer's highly...

Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and...

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"The Humbling" von Philip Roth erzählt die Geschichte des einst erfolgreichen Bühnenschauspielers Simon Axler, der plötzlich seine schauspielerische Gabe verliert. In einer tiefen Depression und Verzweiflung zieht sich Simon in sein...

This dark and painful novella is Roth's 27th book, and as always provoked a strong critical response. It is sure to be a bestseller in this Vintage paperback edition. 'The genius of this short, bleak, remarkable novel stems from the way...

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...'When celebrity aviator, Charles...

"American Pastoral" von Philip Roth ist ein Roman, der die Geschichte von Seymour "Swede" Levov erzählt, einem erfolgreichen jüdischen Geschäftsmann in der Nachkriegszeit in den USA. Swede führt ein scheinbar perfektes Leben: Er ist ein...

In Israel trifft der Schriftsteller Philip Roth auf einen Mann, der unter seinem Namen den Auszug der Juden aus Israel propagiert. Ist dieser Doppelgänger nur ein Irrer, oder ist er ein gefährlicher Hochstapler? Die Ereignisse...