America's most celebrated writer returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature, his controversial novels, and the writing life, including including six pieces published here for the first time and many...

A fiction-within-a-fiction, My Life as a Man centres on the fraught marriage of Peter, a gifted young writer and Maureen Tarnopol, the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead becomes his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and...

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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...

Roth's short novel (his 30th) now comes in paperback. Simon Axler, once the leading stage actor of his generation, is now in his 60s and has lost his magic, talent and confidence. With his wife and audience gone, how can he make a...

"The Plot Against America" von Philip Roth ist ein alternativer Geschichtsroman, der in den 1940er Jahren in den Vereinigten Staaten spielt. Die Geschichte wird aus der Perspektive des jungen Philip Roth erzählt und beschreibt eine...

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...

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...

Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history novel--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...

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 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...