66 results for '"Philip Roth"'

“Obscenely outrageous and yet brilliantly reflective of a paranoid reality that has become universal. It is the best of Roth.” —The New York Times Book Review In quest of the unpublished manuscript...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY “It's not a prophecy; it's a nightmare. . . . [A] sinuous and brilliant book, with its extreme sweetness, its black pain, and its low,...

“Roth’s prose is as assured and inviting as ever…. delivers pages of great, sad power.” —Washington Post Book World “Intricate, artful, and pressing.” —The New Yorker “Zuckerman is Roth's greatest...

ONE OF THE THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS Portnoy's Complaint scandalized-and forever changed-American literature." -The Washington Post “Deliciously funny . . . absurd...

In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist...

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—a fiendishly imaginative book that features Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused...

"The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book ... lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions." --John Updike, The New Yorker The third novel in the Zuckerman series, The Anatomy Lesson is a...

ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "A dirty and depraved masterpiece." -Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times "An astonishment and...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “Further evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power—the ability to delight the reader simultaneously...

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER "Magnificent ... splendid.... I hope The Counterlife felt, as Mr. Roth wrote it, like a triumph, because that is certainly how it reads to me." --New York...

“I don’t want you to rehabilitate me,” Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. “Just make me interesting.” Granted complete independence and access, Bailey spent almost ten...

A landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of...

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...

In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero. A suffering and persecuted intellectual, Moses E. Herzog passively accepts the...

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...

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...

Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest...

America’s most celebrated writer returns with a definitive edition of his essential statements on literature, his controversial novels, and the writing life, including including six pieces published...

Ecrivain du moi sous ses multiples masques, Philip Roth a bâti une oeuvre abondante sur les écarts par rapport à l'idée que les Etats-Unis se font du romancier juif.

For the last half century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and redefined its possibilities, leading the critic Harold Bloom to proclaim Roth ?our foremost novelist since...