The story of the marriage of a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that long after Maureen's death,...
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 about sex...
In Der Ghost Writer lernen wir in den fünfziger Jahren Nathan Zuckerman kennen, einen hoffnungsvollen jungen Autor mit einer Leidenschaft für bedeutende Bücher, der in einem abgelegenen Winkel Neuenglands, als Gast im Haus seines literarisc...
Thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality and at the same time held back by the iron grip of his childhood, Alexander Portnoy is one of Philip Roth's most intriguing and hilarious characters. "A deliciously funny book, absurd and exuberant,...
Coleman Silk, Professor an einer noblen Ostküsten-Universität, wird wegen einer unbedeutenden Äußerung als Rassist abgestempelt. Eine glanzvolle Karriere endet abrupt. Jahre später holt die Liebesaffäre mit einer sehr viel...
Writer Nathan Zuckerman develops a mysterious painful affliction making it impossible to write. He embarks on a trek from one doctor to another to find a cure, but no-one can assuage it. A comic masterpiece and brilliant finale to the Zuckerman trilogy....
Gill Gamesh, John Baal, Rupert Mundys: If you've never heard of them, it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. This novel turns baseball's status as national...
Nathan Zuckerman is visiting Prague, where intellectuals come searching for Kafta, where misfits who don't submit decently to their misfortunes act out a comedy of manners in decadence. Here Zuckerman meets Olga, and brings home lessons for the American...
A famous writer and his mistress meet in a room without a bed. They talk, they play games with each other, they have sex, they tell lies. This work since
A Moses in reverse and a man whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back to Europe is at the center of this meditation on identity
This collection of interviews reveals the intellectual and creative life of one of America's contemporary masters of fiction writing. In spanning his richly productive career, they convey a sense of his continuity and of his growth as a novelist.