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…
Portnoy's Complaint is a disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. In this book, the author states that many of the symptoms can be traced to the…
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…
Philip Roths bestselling alternate history novelthe chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist presidentis soon to be an HBO limited series. In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Ro…
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…
'Though on the morning after the election disbelief prevailed, especially among the pollsters, by the next everybody seemed to understand everything...' When celebrity aviator, Charles A. Lindbergh, wins the 1940 presidential election on the slogan…
'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…
Discover the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers. 'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and…
'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, his demanding yet highly rewarding business, his sporting prowess, his good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty…
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…
As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes' - an identity that will cling to him for a lifetime.
Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history--the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president--is soon to be an HBO limited series. In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Ro…
In a novel of alternative history, aviation hero and isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, negotiating a cordial accord with Adolf Hitler, accepting his conquest of Europe and anti-Semitic po…
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 Silk…
"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,…
Tells the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer and fall into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. This novella is a…
It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic. Decent, athletic twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded hi…
In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption. A Penguin Classic This is the story of Moses Herz…
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…
In time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Nobel Prize winner's finest achievements A Penguin Classic This is the story of Moses Herzog--a great sufferer, joker, mourner, charmer, serial writer of unsent letters, and a survivor, both of his…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
Returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman - incontinent and impotent - comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Walking the streets he quickly makes several connections that explode his carefully p…
In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s.
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…
Professor of Desire follows David Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a menage a trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York. Roth creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and…
Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has been touring Israel - riding high on the author's reputation - preaching a bizarre reverse-exodus of the Jews, encouraging them to return to their ancestral homes in Europe.
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…
The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best. It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a…
A collection of conversations and essays about writers and writing. The collection explores the importance of religion, politics and history in the work of others. The essays trace the imaginative path by which a writer's individualized art is infor…
Winner of the National Book Award for FictionSabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero.
How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality?What becomes of 'the facts' after they have been smelted down for art's sake?
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral. Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio h…
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award In Operation Shylock, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring Israel, promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews. Roth is intent on stopping him,…
"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…
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…
A fiction-within-a-fiction, a labyrinthine edifice of funny, mournful, and harrowing meditations on the fatal impasse between a man and a woman, My Life as a Man is Roth's most blistering novel. At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Ta…
Letting Go is Roth's first full-length novel, published just after Goodbye, Columbus, when he was twenty-nine. Set in 1950s Chicago, New York, and Iowa City, Letting Go presents as brilliant a fictional portrait as we have of a mid-century America d…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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.…
How can leaders craft political institutions that will sustain the peace and foster democracy in ethnically divided societies after conflicts as destructive as civil wars? Under turbulent conditions the leaders of ethnic groups, governments, and int…
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…
Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but his talent - his magic - has deserted him. It is only when he begins an affair with Pegeen - formerly a lesbian of 17 years - that Axler's regeneration (and then his final catastrop…
Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son. Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his vigour, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' - battles with th…
