Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionThe Counterlife is about people living their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter their destinies. Wherever they find...

'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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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' -...

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....

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

National Bestseller. Soon to be a major motion picture directed by James Schamus.In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore...

In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. von Roth, Philip