BOOKS by Philip Roth

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1	Indignation more books like this by Philip Roth Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life's unimagined chances and terrifying consequences. "Indignation" is at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and a powerful addition to Roth's investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual. see all copies from $11.43! new only from $13.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Plot Against America more books like this by Philip Roth Philip Roth creates a startling premise: Charles Lindbergh beats out Franklin Roosevelt and is elected president of the US in 1940, inaugurating an atmosphere of anti-Semitism and bigotry that turns the country into a nightmare for Jews. Among them are the Roths: Herman, Bess, and the two boys, Philip and Sandy. Philip is undergoing a typically ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Portnoys Complaint more books like this by Philip Roth - Presents the most important 20th century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature - The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism - Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index - Introductory essay by Harold Bloom see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	American Pastoral more books like this by Philip Roth Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheriter of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. American Pastoral is the story of a ... see all copies from $3.68! new only from $8.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Sabbath's Theater more books like this by Philip Roth Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Micky Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own - Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Human Stain more books like this by Philip Roth Coleman Silk has a secret. But it's not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with a woman half his age. And it's not the secret of his alleged racism, which provoked the college witchhunt that cost him his job. Coleman's secret is deeper, and lies at the very core of who he is, and he has kept it hidden from everyone for fifty years. Set in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Everyman more books like this by Philip Roth The bestselling author of "The Plot Against America" now turns his attention to one man's lifelong confrontation with mortality. From his first glimpse of death during his childhood through his vigorous, seemingly invincible prime, Roth's hero is a man bewildered not only by his own decline but by the unimaginable deaths of his contemporaries and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Exit Ghost more books like this by Philip Roth Nathan Zuckerman, the indomitable literary adventurer of Roth's nine Zuckerman books, finds himself involved--as he never wanted or intended to be--with love, mourning, desire, and animosity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Dying Animal more books like this by Philip Roth David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York College, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twentyfour, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder and haunts him for the next eight years. Since the sexual ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories more books like this by Philip Roth Philip Roth won the National Book Award for "Goodbye, Columbus", the story which gives this collection of stories its title. The story traces the love relationship of Neil, a young college boy, and Brenda, the spoilt but love-starved daughter of a wealthy manufacturer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.58! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Ghost Writer more books like this by P Roth The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s, a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff. At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.02! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Zuckerman Unbound more books like this by Philip Roth A novel which features the literary novelist Nathan Zuckerman. Zuckerman, dogged by personal neuroses and ill-health, has to contend with a tough television celebrity, who accuses him of plagiarising his personal life, whilst watching his father's terminal illness move towards its sad conclusion. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Breast more books like this by Philip Roth Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	I Married a Communist more books like this by Philip Roth Radio actor Iron Rinn is a big Newark roughneck lighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, an uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot, six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he emerges from serving in WW2 passionately committed to making the world a better place and winds up ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Professor of desire more books like this by Philip Roth David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both its ordinary and spectacular forms, and the novel charts the history of his desire from the early years, when he is acceded to it totally, to the time when he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Operation Shylock: A Confession more books like this by Philip Roth Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1994, Philip Roth's novel is about an American Jewish novelist named "Philip Roth," who is actually an imposter posing as the real Philip Roth. The imposter, Moishe Pipik, outrages Jews all over the world by advocating that Jews in Israel should go back where they came from. Roth threatens to sue, and Pipik ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Deception more books like this by Philip Roth A famous writer, named Philip, and his mistress meet in a room without a bed. They talk, they play games with each other, they have sex, they tell lies. "Deception", Philip Roth's most poignant and provocative work since Portnoy's "Complaint", explores adultery and the unmasking of illicit lovers in a novel that exposes the tenderness and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.64! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Goodbye Columbus more books like this by Philip Roth Roth's debut book, a novella and short stories about Jews in contemporary America, won a National Book Award in 1959 and established him as an important writer. While his insight into the Jewish-American experience won him a large audience, his realistic characterizations alienated many American Jews, who considered him anti-Semitic--a description ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.61! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Great American Novel more books like this by Philip Roth Gill Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpre. 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 Rupert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American history - it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Landscaping for Dummies(r) more books like this by Philip Giroux, Sally Roth, National Gardening Association (Editor) A beautiful landscape reflects well on your house, making it a welcome part of a neighborhood or native terrain. And it dramatically increases your home's value. Landscaping also makes your house and yard more useful and better able to complement your family's lifestyle. Trees shade your home to reduce energy use. Thorny shrubs deter prowlers. ... see all copies from $4.20! new only from $8.19! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Anatomy Lesson more books like this by Philip Roth At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Counterlife more books like this by Philip Roth In this 1986 novel, Roth's perennial antihero and alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, travels to Israel (among other places) and discovers that a price must be paid if he is going to fulfill the dream to change his life--to find for himself a "counterlife" that will be more fulfilling and vital than the one he leaves behind. Roth plays with the idea of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Patrimony: A True Story more books like this by Philip Roth Herman Roth is eighty-six years old, a widower and retired insurance manager, suffering from a brain tumour and fighting death. In a remarkable act of memory, elegy and appreciation, Philip Roth creates his most irrepressible and irresistible hero yet - his father. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Letting Go more books like this by Philip Roth This is the story of a young college student in search of love and happiness, and his response to life's adventures and experiences. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Our gang (starring Trick and his friends) more books like this by Philip Roth A ferocious political satire in the great tradition, "Our Gang" is Philip Roth's brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon of Richard M. Nixon. In the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth show us a man who outdoes the severest cynic, a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the sanctity of human life who doesn't have a problem with killing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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