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...

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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 is a vicious, furious book, unapologetically not of this age - it is also horribly funny and unflinchingly honest' New StatesmanDavid Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is an eminent cultural critic on NPR radio and a...

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...

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...

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...

Billed as Roth's most successful and controversial novel since "Portnoy's Complaint, Sabbath's Theater" features a characteristically libidinous protagonist, Mickey Sabbath, who, following the death of his mistress, embarks on a...

No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches...

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...

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 that name has been touring Israel, promoting a...

A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang is Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a...