Philip Roth: 81 books

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing...

National Book Award Winner Philip Roth's brilliant career was launched when the unknown twenty-five-year-old writer won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for a collection that was to be called Goodbye, Columbus, and which, in turn, captured the 1960 National Book Award. In the famous...

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...

It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about...

Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger turned popular performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he marries the nation's reigning...

Gil Gamesh is the only pitcher who ever tried to kill the umpire, and John Baal, The Babe Ruth of the Big House, never hit a home run sober. But you've never heard of them -- or of the Ruppert Mundys, the only homeless big-league ball team in American history -- because of the communist plot and the...

“With the lover everyday life recedes,” Roth writes—and exhibiting all his skill as a brilliant observer of human passion, he presents in Deception the tightly enclosed world of adulterous intimacy with a directness that has no equal in American fiction. This chilling and unconventional novel...

Esta é a famosa confissão de Alexander Portnoy, impelido ao longo da vida por uma sexualidade insaciável, mas ao mesmo tempo refreado pela mão de ferro de uma infância inesquecível. «Um monólogo hilariante que já enriqueceu a literatura americana com um novo protótipo... Quem guarde alguma...

Toen luchtvaartheld Charles A. Lindbergh bij de verkiezingen van 1940 Franklin Roosevelt verpletterde, sloeg in elke joods familie in Amerika de angst toe. Lindbergh verweet de joden publiekelijk dat ze uit eigenbelang aanstuurden op een zinloze oorlog met nazi-Duitsland. Wat daarna gebeurde in Amerika...

Una novela cómica de proporciones épicas en la que Mickey Sabbath, eterno adolescente casi al borde de la jubilación, es un héroe digno de Rabelais. Mickey Sabbath es un eterno adolescente casi al borde de la jubilación, un ex titiritero imaginativo, genial y libidinoso como el que más. Tras...

Una obra magistral que parte de un hecho histórico para adentrarse de lleno en la historia con letra minúscula. Una de las novelas imprescindibles del autor estadounidense. Cuando el renombrado héroe de la aviación y fanático aislacionista Charles A. Lindbergh obtuvo una victoria...

Philip Roth nos introduce en una historia íntima y universal sobre la pérdida, el arrepentimiento y el estoicismo. El autor de La conjura contra América desvía ahora su atención hacia la lucha crónica de un hombre contra la mortalidad. El destino del protagonista de la novela comienza...

La nueva novela de Philip Roth: otro acontecimiento editorial de primer orden. Para Simon Axler, uno de los principales actores teatrales norteamericanos, todo ha terminado. Ya sexagenario, ha perdido su magia, su talento y la seguridad en sí mismo. Imagina que la gente se ríe de él, no...

Una novela devastadora sobre el equívoco que sustenta las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres. Una novela dentro de otra novela, un laberíntico edificio narrativo lleno de lúgubres y clarificadoras meditaciones sobre el fatal impassentre un hombre y una mujer. Mi vida como hombre (1974)...