Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father's long, stubborn engagement with life.

Product Description: Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father--famous for his vigor, his charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections--battles with the brain tumor that will kill him...read more

Nathan Zuckerman's fourth novel--a scandalously explicit best seller-makes him rich and famous and throws him, amid gossip, temptations, and threats, into the turbulent world outside of art

Product Description: Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky ("Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?"), he also finds himself the target of admonishers, advisors, and sidewalk literary critics...read more

Product Description: In this imaginative novel, Philip Roth converts the status of baseball from a national myth and pastime into the basis for biting satire, replete with heroism and treachery, wordplay, and an unforgettable cast of characters. Locked away in an asylum, once-famous sports journalist Word Smith attempts to write the great American novel through the story of one of the United States’ most celebrated baseball teams...read more

Product Description: 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 year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad--mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy...read more

National Bestseller. Now 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 year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad– mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. Far from Newark, Marcus has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world. Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in Roth’s recent books and a powerful exploration of a remarkable moment in American history.

Product Description: [Read by Ray Chase] Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in Roth's recent books and a powerful exploration of a remarkable moment in American history...read more

Product Description: The most important in your life has to be you! So, how well do you know yourself? Never gave a thought for yourself right? So, what are you waiting for? Reach out for this book and Read what your personality type is and how you can make yourself quite happy too!

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Product Description: The definitive Philip Roth edition continues with three novels written in his late sixties and early seventies. The Dying Animal (2001) marks the final return of David Kepesh from The Breast (1972) and The Professor of Desire (1977)...read more

Product Description: What kind of choices fatally shape a life? How does the individual withstand the onslaught of circumstance? These are the dark questions that animate Nemeses, the quartet of thematically related short novels that are published here together for the first time in this final volume of The Library of America’s definitive edition of Philip Roth’s collected works...read more

Product Description: “With the lover everyday life recedes,” Roth writes ― and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction...read more

En el «calor sofocante de la Newark ecuatorial» una espantosa epidemia causa estragos y amenaza con dejar a los niños de la ciudad de Nueva Jersey mutilados, paralizados o minusválidos, e incluso con matarlos. Este es el sorprendente tema de la nueva y desgarradora obra de Roth: una epidemia de polio que tiene lugar en un tiempo de guerra, el verano de 1944, y sus efectos sobre la comunidad de Newark, regida por la cohesión y los valores de la familia, y sobre sus niños.El protagonista de Némesis es Bucky Cantor, un joven de veintitrés años responsable de las actividades al aire libre de los alumnos de una escuela, lanzador de jabalina y levantador de pesas, que vive volcado en sus pupilos y frustrado por no haber podido ir a la guerra con sus coetáneos a causa de un defecto de visión. Cuando la polio empieza a asolar el patio de recreo, Roth se concentra en los dilemas de Cantor y en las realidades cotidianas a las que este se enfrenta, y nos conduce a través de todas las emociones que una plaga semejante puede engendrar: el miedo, el pánico, la cólera, el desconcierto, el sufrimiento y el dolor.Alternando el escenario de las sofocantes y malolientes calles de la Newark asediada y el de Indian Hill, un inmaculado campamento infantil sito en lo alto de las montañas Pocono, donde «el aire estaba exento de toda polución», Roth retrata a un hombre bueno, enérgico y armado con las mejores intenciones que libra su particular guerra contra la epidemia. El autor se muestra en todo momento delicadamente preciso al abordar la transición de Cantor hacia la tragedia personal, y no menos preciso al tratar el tema de la infancia.En esta novela volvemos a encontrar el sombrío interrogante que recorre las últimas cuatro novelas de Roth, Elegía, Indignación, La humillación y ahora Némesis: ¿qué decisiones determinan fatalmente la vida? ¿Hasta qué punto somos impotentes ante las circunstancias?

Product Description: Junto a Herzog, de Saul Bellow, El mal de Portnoy (1967) define la literatura estadounidense de origen judÁo de los aÁos sesenta. Esta obra maestra, quizÁ la que le dio a su autor un lugar que aÁn no ha abandonado en el Parnaso de los escritores americanos, transcurre en la consulta de un psicoanalista, un sitio muy apropi...read more

Product Description: Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth’s startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, "are melted into air, into thin air...read more