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Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 story collection Goodbye, Columbus, and has since become one of the most honored authors of his generation: Roth's books have twice been awarded the National Book Award, twice the National Book Critics...
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The Human Stain
The Human Stain (2000) is a novel by Philip Roth. It is set in late 1990s rural New England. Its first person narrator is 65-year-old author Nathan Zuckerman, a character in previous Roth novels, including American Pastoral (1997) and I Married a...
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- May 2000
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Goodbye, Columbus
Goodbye, Columbus (1959) is the title of the first book published by the American novelist Philip Roth, a collection of six stories.
In addition to its title novella, set in New Jersey, Goodbye, Columbus contains the five short stories "The...
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Portnoy's Complaint
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) is American writer Philip Roth's most popular novel, with many of its characteristics (comedic prose; themes of sexual desire and sexual frustration; a self-conscious literariness) having gone on to become Roth trademarks....
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- 1969
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Operation Shylock
Operation Shylock: A Confession (ISBN 0-671-70376-5) is novelist Philip Roth's 19th book and was published in 1993. The novel follows narrator "Philip Roth" on a journey to Israel where he attends the trial of accused war criminal John Demjanjuk. At...
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American Pastoral
American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a Jewish-American businessman and former high school athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social...
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- May 12, 1997
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Zuckerman Bound
Zuckerman Bound is a trilogy of novels by Philip Roth which was completed in 1985. They all follow the writing career and struggles of Roth's alter ego Nathan Zuckerman. The trilogy consists of:
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The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. It is an alternate history in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh.
The novel follows the fortunes of the Roth...
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- 2004
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- Sep 2004
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The Great American Novel
The Great American Novel is a novel by Philip Roth, published in 1973. It concerns the Patriot League, a fictional American baseball league, and the national Communist conspiracy to eliminate its history because it has become a fully open communist...
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Sabbath's Theater
Sabbath's Theater (1995, ISBN 0-679-77259-6) is a novel by Philip Roth about the exploits of 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath. It received the National Book Award for fiction in 1995.
Mickey Sabbath (modeled after American Jewish painter R.B. Kitaj) is an...
The Ghost Writer
The Ghost Writer (1979) is the first novel by Philip Roth to be narrated by Nathan Zuckerman, one of Roth's alter egos, and constitutes the first book in his Zuckerman Bound trilogy. The novel touches on themes common to many Roth works, including...
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- Jul 2004
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- 1979
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- 152399
I Married a Communist
I Married a Communist is a Philip Roth novel concerning the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, known as "Iron Rinn." The story is narrated by Nathan Zuckerman, and is one of a trio of Zuckerman novels Roth wrote in the 1990s depicting the postwar history...
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- 1998
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When She Was Good
When She Was Good (1967) is Philip Roth's only novel with a female protagonist, Lucy Nelson. In this funny and chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, and the subject is the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic...
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- 1967
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Our Gang
Our Gang (1971) is Philip Roth's fifth novel. A marked departure from his previous book, the popular Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang is a political satire written in the form of a closet drama. Centered around the character of "Trick E. Dixon", a...
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My Life As a Man
My Life As a Man (1974) is American writer Philip Roth's seventh novel. The work is split into two sections: the first section, "Useful Fictions," consisting of two short stories about a character named Nathan Zuckerman (although this character...
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The Dying Animal
The Dying Animal (2001) is a short novel by the US writer Philip Roth. It tells the story of senior literature professor David Kepesh, who is renowned for hosting a literature-themed radio show. In spite of his implied cultural pedigree, Kepesh is...
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- 2001
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The Breast
The Breast (1972) is a novella by Philip Roth, in which the main character, David Kepesh, becomes a 155-pound breast. Throughout the book Kepesh fights with himself. Part of him wishes to give in to bodily desires, while the other part of him wants...
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- 1972
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Everyman
Everyman is a novel by Philip Roth, published by Houghton Mifflin in May 2006. The audiobook version (ISBN 1-4193-8723-5) is narrated by George Guidall and published by Recorded Books in 2006. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2007. It is...
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- 2006
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The Professor of Desire
The Professor of Desire is a 1977 novel by Philip Roth. It describes the youth, the college years and the academic career of professor David Kepesh, and beside that, his sexual desires.
David is emotionally insecure. He grows up in the hotel his...
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- 1977
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Letting Go
Letting Go (1962) is the first full-length novel written by Philip Roth and is set in the 1950s.
Gabe Wallach is a graduate student in literature at the University of Iowa and an ardent admirer of Henry James. Fearing that the intellectual demands...
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- 1962
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Deception: A Novel
Deception is a 1990 novel by Philip Roth. This book marks the first time Roth uses his own name as the name of the main protagonist within a fictional work (he had previously used himself as a main character in a work of non-fiction - The Facts: A...
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Zuckerman Unbound
Zuckerman Unbound is a 1981 novel by the American author Philip Roth. Like much of Roth's fiction, this book confronts the tenuous relationship between an author and his artistic creations. It resumes the story of Roth's fictional alter ego Nathan...
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- 1981
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The Anatomy Lesson
The Anatomy Lesson is a 1983 novel by the American author Philip Roth. It is the third novel from Roth to feature Nathan Zuckerman as the main character. Having buried his father in the previous novel Zuckerman Unbound, Zuckerman finds himself...
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The Counterlife
The Counterlife (1986) is a novel by the American author Philip Roth. It is the fourth full novel to feature the fictional novelist Nathan Zuckerman. However, when The Counterlife was published, Zuckerman had most recently appeared in a novella...
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Exit Ghost
Exit Ghost is a 2007 novel by Philip Roth. It is the ninth, and Roth says his last, novel featuring Nathan Zuckerman.
The plot centers on Zuckerman's return home to New York after eleven years in New England. The purpose of Zuckerman's journey,...
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- Sep 2007
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Reading Myself and Others
Reading Myself and Others (1975) is an anthology of essays, interviews and criticism by the author Philip Roth. The first half of the book is built mainly upon Roth's assessment of his own published works at the time of the anthology's publication....
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- Jan 1, 1975
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The Prague Orgy
The Prague Orgy (1985) is a novella by Philip Roth. The short book is the epilogue to his trilogy Zuckerman Bound. The story follows Roth's alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, on a journey to Communist Prague in the 1970s seeking the unpublished manuscript...
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Patrimony: A True Story
Patrimony: A True Story (1991) is a non-fiction memoir by American writer Philip Roth. In it, he recounts the death of his father, Herman Roth, from brain cancer. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
This book is included in the...
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- 1991
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A Philip Roth Reader
A Philip Roth Reader is a selection of writings by Philip Roth first published in 1980 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, with a revised version reprinted in 1993 by Vintage Books. Both editions include selections from Roth's first eight novels (up to...
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Indignation
Indignation is a novel by Philip Roth, released by Houghton Mifflin on September 16, 2008. It is his twenty-ninth book.
Set in America in 1951, the second year of the Korean War, Indignation is narrated by Marcus Messner, a college student from...
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- Sep 16, 2008
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Nemesis
Nemesis is an upcoming novel by Philip Roth to be published in 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It will be Roth's 31st novel, "a work of fiction set in the summer of 1944 that tells of a polio epidemic and its effects on a closely knit Newark...
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The Humbling
The Humbling is a novel by Philip Roth published in the fall of 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It is Roth's 30th book and concerns "...an aging stage actor whose empty life is altered by a 'counterplot of unusual erotic desire.'".
After several...
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- Nov 2, 2009
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Quand Elle Etait Gentille
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Muay thnai samrap qun
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Amerikanisches Idyll
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Der menschliche Makel
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Elegia
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Shop Talk
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Le Sein
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Novels, 1967-1972
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Miguel Calderon
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Novotny's pain
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El Pecho/ The Breast
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Ma vie d'homme
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conversion of the Jews
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El Oficio
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J'ai épousé un communiste
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Le Théâtre de Sabbath
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La Tache
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Die Anatomiestunde
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