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...

Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York in the long-awaited final installment of Philip Roth's renowned Zuckerman series.Alone for eleven years on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no media, no terrorist...

Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son.Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his vigour, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' -...

Presents an acerbic response to the phenomenon of Richard M Nixon. In the character of Trick E Dixon, the author portrays an American president who outdoes the severest cynic; a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human...

When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life, with...

Seymore Levov lebt mit seiner Frau Dawn, der Schönheitskönigin von 1949, und seiner Tochter Merry in Newark, New Jersey. Er leitet eine Handschuhfabrik, die seine vor drei Generationen eingewanderten jüdischen Vorfahren aufgebaut haben....

Philip Roth was one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. Born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his...

Vintage edition of Philip Roth's classic, where Alexander Portnoy is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. 'The most outrageously funny book...

Im ersten Band begegnen wir dem Schriftsteller auf der Suche nach einem geistigen Vater, der seine Arbeiten beurteilen kann und dessen Anerkennung ihm zum Ausbruch aus der bürgerlichen Enge verhilft. von Roth, Philip

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...