Philip Roth: The Novel is a Dying Animal

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  • Philip Roth: Novels 1993-1995 (LOA #205): Operation Shylock / Sabbath's Theater (Library of America Philip Roth Edition)

    • ASIN: 159853078X
    • ISBN: 159853078X
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works continues with two novels that heralded the beginning of a more than decade-long creative explosion-one remarkable in an older writer and hailed by critics as unparalleled in American literary history. In the diabolically imaginative Operation Shylock (1993), a character n... [Read More]

  • The Plot Against America: A Novel

    • ASIN: B003WJQ6RC
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • The Great American Novel

    • ASIN: 0679749063
    • ISBN: 0679749063
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. The ex-con first baseman, John Baal, "The Babe Ruth of the Big House," who never hit a home run sober. If you've never heard of them—or of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American history—it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist... [Read More]

  • Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977, The Great American Novel, My Life as a Man, The Professor of Desire (Library of America)

    • ASIN: 1931082960
    • ISBN: 9781931082969
    • Brand: Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    This third volume of The Library of America’s definitive edition of Philip Roth’s collected works presents three markedly different novels that together trace a crucial period in the bold evolution of one of America’s indispensable novelists. In The Great American Novel (1973), a hilarious, bizarre, strangely poignant tall tale of American ... [Read More]

  • Philip Roth: The American Trilogy 1997-2000 (LOA #220): American Pastoral / I Married a Communist / The Human Stain (Library of America Philip Roth Edition)

    • ASIN: 1598531034
    • ISBN: 1598531034
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    Gathered together for the first time in this seventh volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works is the acclaimed American Trilogy, a major milestone in contemporary American literature. In American Pastoral (1997), Swede Levov is wrenched from the tranquility of his domestic life and into the turbulent 19... [Read More]

  • Novels and Stories, 1959-1962 (Library of America)

    • ASIN: 1931082790
    • ISBN: 1931082790
    • Brand: Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities. Roth’s comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assault on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time. By special arran... [Read More]

  • American Pastoral: American Trilogy (1) (Vintage International)

    • ASIN: 0375701427
    • ISBN: 0375701427
    • Brand: Vintage Books USA
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 2)

    • ASIN: B00475AYJQ
    • Manufacturer: DAW

  • The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442843676
    • ASIN: 0395843677
    • ISBN: 0395843677
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the b... [Read More]

  • Philip Roth Novels 1973-1977 (Library Of America) Philip Roth Novels 1973-1977

    • ASIN: B00E3I0UGO

  • Nemesis (Vintage International)

    • ASIN: 030747500X
    • ISBN: 030747500X
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    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 summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excl... [Read More]

  • The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle Book 1)

    • ASIN: B0010SKUYM
    • Manufacturer: DAW

  • Letting Go

    • ASIN: 0679764178
    • ISBN: 0679764178
    • Brand: Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa city, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America defined by social and ethical constraints and by moral compulsions conspicuously different from those ... [Read More]

  • American Pastoral

    • ASIN: B01M59JIG3

  • Spanky & Our Gang - Live

    • ASIN: B01MQHC63V
    • Manufacturer: Mercury Records

  • Goodbye, Columbus : And Five Short Stories (Vintage International)

    • ASIN: 0679748261
    • ISBN: 0679748261
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters.Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one sum... [Read More]

  • The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle)

    • ASIN: B00J9SUF2W
    • Manufacturer: DAW

    Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place.Her name is Auri, and she is full of mysteries.The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a brief, bitte... [Read More]

  • Portnoy's Complaint

    • ASIN: 0679756450
    • ISBN: 0679756450
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    The groundbreaking novel that propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, Philip Roth's masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-fel... [Read More]

  • The Human Stain: A Novel (American Trilogy Book 3)

    • ASIN: B003JFJHP2
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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