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Philip Roth
Nathan Zuckerman is visiting Prague, where intellectuals come searching for Kafta, where misfits who don’t submit decently to their misfortunes act out a comedy of manners in decadence. Here Zuckerman…
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Phillip Roth confronts his double, an imposter whose self-appointed task is to lead the jews out of Israel and back to Europe, a moses in reverse and a monstrous nemesis…
‘This is a vicious, furious book, unapologetically not of this age - it is also horribly funny and unflinchingly honest’ New StatesmanDavid Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is…
Radio actor Iron Rinn is a roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist turned popular performer, he marries America’s reigning…
Tells the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer break and dive into an affair…
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It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the…
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionEveryman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism.
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood.
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‘The work of a genius at full throttle’ Sunday TelegraphIt is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in…
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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…
Seymour Levov, a devoted family man and inheritor of his father’s factory, comes of age in thriving post-war America. His daughter Merry is the apple of his eye until America…
