WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEPhilip Roth's masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America `Swede' Levov is living the American dream.
`Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope. Until one sunny day…
Med trilogin ”Amerikansk pastoral” (1997), ”Gift med en kommunist” (1998) och ”Skamfläcken” (2000) och den fristående ”Konspirationen mot Amerika” (2004) producerade Philip Roth på kort tid fyra romane…
Tracing the full span of Philip Roth's career - from the early controversies surrounding the stories in Goodbye, Columbus to his recent assessments of his work and corrections of the record - this retrospective summation of his essays and interviews…
With a new Afterword by the author for the 25th Anniversary edition. "Touching as well as hilariously lewd.... Roth is vibrantly talented...as marvelous a mimic and fantasist as has been produced by the most verbal group in human history." --Alfred…
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Here is Philip Roth's masterpiece--an elegy for the American century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark high school, who grows…
Konsten, livet och kärleken är ledmotiven i Philip Roths Spökskrivaren där Nathan Zuckerman, ung man med författardrömmar, kommer på besök till den åldrande mästerförfattaren Lonoff. För Nathans del har skrivandet lett till en allvarlig konflikt då…
Den heta krigssommaren 1944 drabbas New Jersey av en polioepidemi. Unga människor insjuknar, förlamas, några dör. Invånarna i Newark är förtvivlade. Ingen vet hur sjukdomen sprids, desperationen och ilskan tilltar. Möjliga syndabockar finns plötslig…
Trots sin judiskhet är Seymor Levov en lång och blond idrottshjälte, med smeknamnet Swede. Hans far är framgångsrik fabrikör i Newark, och den pastorala lyckodrömmen får honom att avstå från en stjärnkarriär som baseballspelare för att i stället gif…
'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 a small New England town a distinguished classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced…
Gil Gamesh, the only pitcher who ever literally tried to kill the umpire. 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 Ruppert Mundys, the only homele…
A successful commercial artist with three very different ex-wives, a daughter who adores him, and two sons who despise him, the protagonist finds his confidence, sense of independence, and well-being undermined by an attack of illness in middle age.…
År 1951, Koreakriget är inne på sitt andra år och Marcus Messner har flytt Newark, New Jersey, för att börja på ett college i Ohio. Han är medvetet långt hemifrån, så långt bort han kan komma från framför allt sin far som tycks ha blivit tokig; toki…
The second novel of Roth's eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to American PastoralI Married a Communist charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as a ditchdigg…
Trots att han aldrig lyckats få in en fot hos Mupparna har dockteaterregissören Mickey Sabbath det ganska hyggligt. Det senaste decenniet har han och älskarinnan träffats i sitt kärleksnäste. Men nu vill hon kräva evig trohet från Mickey. Samtidigt…
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 contemporary American literature. In American Pastora…
Now in his mid-thirties, Nathan Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his newfound fame as a bestselling author, ventures onto the streets of Manhattan in the final year of the turbulent sixties. Not only is he assumed by his fans to be his own fict…
The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction--a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. Philip Roth concentrates…
In time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Nobel Prize winner s finest achievements This is the story of Moses Herzog a great sufferer, joker, mourner, charmer, serial writer of unsent letters, and a survivor, both of his private disasters…
`In The Plot Against America, Roth precisely described the sinister and chilling nightmare in which the United States now finds itself... America has not read enough of Philip Roth' Bernard-Henri Levy When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolat…
Nathan Zuckerman återvänder till sin hemstad New York efter en självvald isolering i elva år i New England. Medvetet hänvisad till sitt skrivande endast . Inga röster har stört honom, ingen media, inga terroristattacker, inga kvinnor, inga nyheter.…
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…
Det är 1998, året då USA eggas till vanvett av anklagelserna mot presidenten. I en småstad i New England nalkas livets slut för den tvångspensionerade, vanärade professor Coleman Silk, änklingen vars eget fall speglas i Clinton-affären. Coleman…
A vital survey of 32 internationally recognized artists who make books as part of their creative practice - features 500 images of these rarely seen works.The 'artist's book' has long been an important form of expression, and Artists Who Make Books…
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail. Since then, Lucy has become a furious adolescent - raging against middle-class life and provincial American piety - intent on reforming the men around he…
Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters. Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman…
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 ra…
Radioskådespelaren Iron Rinn är en storvuxen hårding från Newark, ständigt på flykt från en plågsam hemlighet. Han är en idealistisk kommunist, en outbildad grovjobbare som förvandlats till berömd underhållare, en nästan två meter lång Abraham Linco…
Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of h…
The Ruppert Mundys, once the greatest baseball team in America, are now in a terminal decline, their line-up filled with a disreputable assortment of old men, drunks and even amputees.
I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the…
"Philip Roth bekräftar än en gång sin ställning som en av de mest angelägna amerikanska nutidsskildrarna." Blekinge Läns Tidning Inför det amerikanska presidentvalet 1940 fick flygarhjälten och nazistsympatisören Charles A Lindbergh frågan…
När den vida berömde flyghjälten och fanatiske isolationisten Charles A. Lindbergh slog Franklin Roosevelt i en jordskredsseger i presidentvalet 1940 spred sig rädslan i alla judiska hem i Amerika. Lindbergh hade i ett rikstäckande radiouttalande an…
Alex Portnoy forteller til sin psykiater om sitt liv og om sin kamp ved å vokse opp som jøde i en verden befolket av ikke-jøder, for å finne ut av hvorfor han ikke klarer å ha noe varig forhold til en kvinne. Hvorfor har Alex en så enorm appetitt på…
In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and its often wrenching pain, while tales of…
National Bestseller. Soon to be a major motion picture directed by James Schamus. In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pa…
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 pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why i…
National Bestseller. Now a major motion picture, directed by James Schamus In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastora…
If you have a business or a nonprofit organization, or if you're the one responsible for information systems at such an operation, you know that disaster recovery planning is pretty vital. But it's easy to put it off. After all, where do you start?…
The definitive Philip Roth edition continues with three novels written in his late sixties and early seventies. The Dying Animal (2001) marks the final return of David Kepesh from The Breast (1972) and The Professor of Desire (1977). Now an eminent…
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 young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness" is a terrible disease.…
Seymour Levov, modelo a seguir por todos los muchachos jud os de New Jersey, es un gran atleta y mejor hijo, y es el s lido heredero de la f brica de guantes que su padre levant desde la nada. Seymour ha rebasado la mitad del siglo xx sin conflictos…
"Until the day of Merriwether's departure from the house--a month after his divorce--the Merriwether family looked like an ideally tranquil one" we read on the first page of Other Men's Daughters. It is the late 1960s, and the streets of Cambridge,…
Crystalline solar cells based on n-type silicon promise higher energy conversion efficiencies. In order to allow for cost effective production, the present dissertation introduces the concept of co-diffusion, which greatly simplifies production and…
Der bislang so erfolgreiche Schriftsteller Nathan Zuckerman ist in eine Krise geraten. Er leidet unter undefinierbaren Schmerzen und kann nicht mehr schreiben, weil er nichts mehr erlebt. "Um darüber hinwegzukommen, tröstet Zuckerman sich…
Der Radio-Star Iron Rinn und die einstige Hollywood-Größe Eve Frame gelten als Traumpaar, doch in Wirklichkeit ... Nachdem ihre Ehe in Trümmern liegt, schreibt Eve einen Enthüllungs-Bestseller, um ihre eigene Haut und die Karrie…
In a fascinating look at the work of an international cast of writers--including Milan Kundera, Primo Levi, Isaac Singer, and Edna O'Brien--the acclaimed author of The Dying Animal explores the significance of region, history, and politics on an aut…
"Die Tatsachen" ist die unkonventionelle Autobiographie eines Schriftstellers, der unsere Vorstellung von Fiktion verändert hat - ein Werk von faszinierendem Freimut und Erfindungsreichtum, das tiefe Einblicke in die Wechselbeziehung zwischen L…
Nonlinear Time Series Analysis of Economic and Financial Data provides an examination of the flourishing interest that has developed in this area over the past decade. The constant theme throughout this work is that standard linear time series tools…
El sue o americano se tambalea peligrosamente. Una novela que nos lleva a las profundidades de la pirotecnia social norteamericana a trav s de la escritura veloz y magistral de Philip Roth. En el verano de 1998, el doble azote del puritanismo y…
