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...

No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches...

"Exit Ghost" ist ein Roman von Philip Roth, der die Geschichte von Nathan Zuckerman erzählt, einem Schriftsteller, der sich nach Jahren der Zurückgezogenheit in den Berkshires wieder in das hektische Leben New Yorks begibt. Angesichts...

The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse...

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...

A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, Our Gang is Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon.In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth shows us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a...

"Nemesis" von Philip Roth ist ein Roman, der im Sommer 1944 in Newark, New Jersey spielt. Die Geschichte konzentriert sich auf eine Polio-Epidemie und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Gemeinschaft, insbesondere auf einen jungen Sportlehrer...

Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York in the long-awaited final installment of Philip Roth's renowned Zuckerman series.Alone for eleven years on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no media, no terrorist...

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' -...

Presents an acerbic response to the phenomenon of Richard M Nixon. In the character of Trick E Dixon, the author portrays an American president who outdoes the severest cynic; a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human...

"Mein Leben als Sohn: Eine wahre Geschichte" von Philip Roth ist eine autobiografische Erzählung, die sich mit der Beziehung des Autors zu seinen Eltern, insbesondere zu seinem Vater, auseinandersetzt. In diesem Buch reflektiert Roth...

When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life, with...