A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel.
"Was zum Teufel tun Sie denn in einem Bus, Sie mit Ihrem Zaster ?" So beginnt Philip Roth seinen frechen Roman über den Erfolgsschriftsteller Nathan Zuckeman. Mit sarkastischem Humor schildert er Aufdringlichkeit, Neid und Bewunderung der...
Auf der Suche nach dem unveröffentlichten Manuskript eines ermordeten jiddischen Schriftstellers fährt der amerikanische Romanautor Nathan Zuckerman Mitte der siebziger Jahre in das russisch besetzte Prag. In einem Land, das sich in den Fesseln...
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process.
A political satire, this work is an indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M Nixon. In the character of Trick E. Dixon, it show us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn't...
David Kepesh, white haired and over sixty, is an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college. He meets Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student of twenty-four, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. But, the lighthearted...
Der bislang so erfolgreiche Schriftsteller Nathan Zuckerman ist in eine Krise geraten. Er leidet unter undefinierbaren Schmerzen und kann nicht mehr schreiben, weil er nichts mehr erlebt. "Um darüber hinwegzukommen, tröstet Zuckerman sich...
Philip Roth's new paperback deals with people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, often going so far as to risk their own lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies, and who are constantly tempted by the prospect of an alternative existence...
I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditchdigger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, both as a performer and a man, in the McCarth...
An ordinary man finds that his life has been made extraordinary by the catastrophic intrusion of history, when, in 1968, his adored daughter plants a bomb that kills a stranger, hurling her father out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the ingen...
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...