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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

"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...

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...