'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...

Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives. Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the...

Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is now in his sixties and has lost his magic, talent, and assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, "are melted into air, into thin...

"Nemesis" von Philip Roth ist ein Roman, der während eines Polio-Ausbruchs im Sommer 1944 in Newark, New Jersey, spielt. Im Mittelpunkt steht Bucky Cantor, ein junger Sportlehrer und Verantwortlicher für einen Spielplatz. Bucky ist ein...

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

Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after...

"Em vaig casar amb un comunista" (im Original "I Married a Communist") ist ein Roman von Philip Roth, der Teil seiner sogenannten "Amerikanischen Trilogie" ist. Die Geschichte dreht sich um Ira Ringold, einen leidenschaftlichen...

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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Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history-the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president-is soon to be an HBO limited series. In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention,...

"The Plot Against America" von Philip Roth ist ein alternativer Geschichtsroman, der in den Vereinigten Staaten der 1940er Jahre spielt. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine jüdische Familie aus Newark, New Jersey, die mit Schrecken miterlebt, wie...