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...

"Goodbye, Columbus" ist eine Novelle von Philip Roth, die erstmals 1959 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte dreht sich um die Beziehung zwischen Neil Klugman, einem jungen Mann aus Newark, New Jersey, und Brenda Patimkin, einer...

"The Human Stain" von Philip Roth erzählt die Geschichte von Coleman Silk, einem angesehenen Professor an einem kleinen College in Neuengland. Die Handlung spielt Ende der 1990er Jahre und wird von Nathan Zuckerman, einem Schriftsteller...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeHere is Philip Roth's masterpiece-an elegy for the American century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school,...

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...

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The second novel of Roth¿s eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to American PastoralI Married a Communist charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as...

In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s.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

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. audacious, heretical - as darkly hilarious as it is existentially unnerving - making new the silliness, triviality and...

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...